by LobAdmin | Nov 23, 2025 | General Thoughts
I grew up in a mining village where many underground miners lived for only a few years after they retired, if they lived to retirement. Many did not reach retirement. I often walk around the village cemetery when visiting the family grave and so many graves...
by LobAdmin | Nov 23, 2025 | General Thoughts
How many of us old codgers are living in daily fear of being hacked? How do you know if an email, letter, telephone call is a threat or scam, or not. We are advised to be alert, on our guard, so much so that whenever I pick up the phone and a voice asks to speak to...
by LobAdmin | Nov 23, 2025 | General Thoughts
This blog is about virtuous pride in one’s ability but merging on to self- idolatry. It relates to the poem BEWARE PRIDE in BOOK ONE of my books POEMS BY AN OLD CODGER and is a lesson to all entering the teaching profession. In the Autumn of 1959, I was one of the...
by LobAdmin | Nov 23, 2025 | General Thoughts
A brief review of how man and goods have been transported across our tiny island over the years. I marvel at what Britain has achieved. A small island by comparison, and life was hard, but they ‘put their shoulder to the wheel’ when Britain was ‘Great’ and the Kingdom...
by LobAdmin | Nov 23, 2025 | General Thoughts
I had to ask myself – Who or what is a celebrity? A title constantly ‘banded about’ that’s now attributed to so many, who I find do not deserve such an accolade. A self -perpetuating group that we now know have, on occasions, included sex offenders, child...
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