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...
by LobAdmin | Nov 23, 2025 | General Thoughts
In an earlier blog, I wrote of my family enduring three tragedies in three years. The loss of my maternal grandfather (my Taid) in the Gresford mine disaster in 1934, one of the 266 men and boys, was a national event mourned by all nationwide. The second family...
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