WISE AFTER THE EVENT

by | Feb 24, 2021 | General Thoughts

Here we are today hoping that the COVID-19 virus is now under control. We should not be surprised to have encountered this world-wide pandemic; expert have warned of such an outbreak occurring. When and what form of virus we would encounter, have been the...

ELECTRIC CARS

by | Feb 22, 2021 | General Thoughts

I have become rather anxious by the Government’s news that we will all have to drive electric vehicles very soon. I fear that there will be fast, silent killers on all our roads and lanes. I am fortunate to own and drive a second-hand hybrid car which, on the...

THE FUTURE FOR WORKING MAN

by | Feb 22, 2021 | General Thoughts

In the 1980’s, I visited a small factory on the Wirral producing black plastic sacks. Granules in, rolls of sacks out. Just two men managed the whole plant. Automated manufacturing and automated process engineering was, even then, having a devastating effect on...

OBSERVATIONS ON MODERN LIFE

by | Feb 22, 2021 | General Thoughts

We, who entered childhood in the late 1930’s, received a healthy, controlled diet, growing up in clean streets enjoying simple homemade pleasures. Today, we eat more than our stomachs can digest and buy all our pleasures and then throw them away. We are travelling...

MY BOOK OF POEMS THANKS TO COVID-19

by | Feb 17, 2021 | General Thoughts

In early 2019, I was referred to my local hospital for an operation, which eventually took place at the beginning of 2020. I spent most of that year taking things easy at home. No sooner was I back fit and well, when COVID-19 came along, and I was ‘confined to...