An Old Codger

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...

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...

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...

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 barracks’ yet again.