An Old Codger

From our kitchen window we have watched a flock of sparrows daily descending on the shrubs growing against our fence. A summer flowering Jasmine, a winter flowering one, and a thorny Pyracantha with its red berries in time for winter, providing food and cover which...

I feel we are all living at a pace that is ruining our health, even shortening our lives. Life in my young days was standing to use the village public telephone, at the bus stop awaiting transport to work, or to go shopping, or to seek entertainment, is now replaced...

At a recent GP appointment, I was seen by a lady doctor who was very thorough, particularly when she saw my blood pressure readings. My concern that prompted this appointment was related to my throat; I had mentioned others! She wired me up and the ECG print out...

What an amazing scientific and engineering feat to send an unmanned vehicle through space and successfully land on Mars. If it continues according to plan, samples of the planet’s ‘soil’ will be gathered up and returned to NASAs laboratories for analysis. Here our...

That song, made popular by Louis Armstrong, paints a world of green trees, red roses, skies of blue, and friends shaking hands, but there is another world I am witnessing.  Late one afternoon, I drove into the edge of town and parked up my car on a short-stay...

We are an odd human race; we come in different sizes and several skin colours. We have developed separate mother tongues within each nation.  We live nation alongside nation but not always in harmony. Many cannot even exist in harmony within our own population....

It will not have escaped you all that my blogs direct you to my six books of POEMS BY AN OLD CODGER, but the photograph of the six books front covers also has a seventh book cover. There are twenty-two poems in the set of six books which are all about COVID-19 and...

Am I alone or are you the same?Car parking has become an unpleasant game.Another stress for motorists’ health.Hidden cameras operating by stealth. Searching for a parking space before a fellow driver gets it first, I know isn’t gentlemanly, but needs must.  At...

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...