Books of Poems by
An Old Codger
SECOND EDITION
A new, extended, second edition of POEMS BY AN OLD CODGER is now available in a six-book series of rhyming poetry at Amazon Books and Amazon Kindle.
The author offers a personal account of the social history of the 20th Century.
THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
on
THE UNITED KINGDOM
December 2024
Cases – 25,021,035
Deaths – 232,112
Wikipedia
CONTENTS
2020
Extracts from the Institute for Government Analysis.
COVID -19 and my feathered friends.
COVID -19 A Wake-Up Call.
COVID -19 and You.
Our Diamond Jubilee – 2020.
Our Milkman.
Elephants Never Forget.
The Second Battle of Britain.
Lock Down in the Garden.
Christmas at COVID -19 Time.
Masked Intruder!
A year of COVID-19.
2021
Extracts from the Institute for Government Analysis.
I’m in Lockdown.
Our Zoom Anniversary.
Lockdown for me.
Our COVID-19 Jab.
Don’t Fence Me In.
Working from Home.
COVID-19 A Self-Assessment.
Love One Another.
2022
A Review of COVID-19 – 1 Observations on the event.
A Review of COVID-19 – 2 Its Impact on Towns.
Do as I say, not as I do.
BMA’s submission to the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, (Extract)
Born in the late 1930’s, he grew up in a Welsh mining community during World War Two, writes of family mining tragedies, military service, life in the post-war 50’s and 60’s, the Beatles era, and the Cold War.
The series also includes poems on the author’s observations on modern life and COVID-19 lockdown.
The Old Codger
Neil Davies
Extract from the FOREWORD to BOOK ONE.
“As I move through my four score years, I guess that my compatriots and I owe our children, our grandchildren and our great grandchildren a huge apology for allowing our world to become not as we found it when we came into this life.
We have poisoned the land, the seas, and the air. In so many ways we have reached for the stars whilst killing off our own star….”
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Neil has been married to his wife Joy for over sixty years and they have four children, ten grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A Chartered Engineer with a M. Sc. in Applied Psychology, Neil holds the rank of Squadron Leader, serving as an Education Officer in the Royal Air Force for 16 years. During his service career he was awarded the military symbol ‘d.f’ on completion of a Defence Fellowship at UWIST, Cardiff. He later held senior positions in both HE and FE.
From the age of 17, Neil was organist and choirmaster for over 30 years, wherever he resided, and for many years enjoyed male voice choral singing.
For further information please go to the author’s email:-
[email protected] or his Instagram page:- thomasdavies82
Recent musings from An Old Codger
THE SINS OF THE FATHERS
I decided to seek my DNA and find out where I come from. Through family chats and some letters from my mother’s aunt who, at a young age, went to live in Australia on the advice of her doctor, I realise that elements of a true family tree will never be...
FASHION
I feel it is time to offer a lighter side to my blogs. A brief personal look at fashion over the last eighty years from the war years onwards. These are some reflective thoughts on aspects of fashion over my lifetime. I have touched on the fashion era of the 1960’s in...
FARMING
As I sit and observe the state of our country and those countries near and far, now marred by the effects of climate change, I am concerned for the future of farming across our land. The supply of fresh food, milk and grain, home grown feed for cattle and hen, pigs...
FUTURE EMPLOYMENT
n 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 working...
I WITNESSED A MAJOR CHANGE IN LIFE AND LIVING
When World War 2 ended, Britain had a new problem. One of recovery in so many ways. Food rationing continued into the 1950’s, damaged buildings across many parts of the country needed either clearing or repairing. The austerity taxed the nation in so many ways, but...
SCRAPYARDS GALORE
In a desert place with dry flat sand,Redundant aircraft in a line they stand,Outdated, inefficient, too big, too small,Superfluous to the industry’s current call. I fear that there will be many, many, moreSurplus to airline fleets, left on the floor,Whilst this virus...
Increased concern over the introduction of electric vehicles.
Readers of my blogs will recall that, in February, I expressed concern over the introduction of electric cars. Charging at home, charging points to meet demand, who will be able to afford them, and pedestrians not aware of their presence. I have just experienced...
OLD NAIN JONES
Old Nain Jones sits by her front room window,Her lace net curtains hanging still and low,Watching life on the street outside,With memories of when it was always cleaned with pride. Old Ted is out there still delivering coal,Once a fine young man, played in goal.Ah!...
Personal observed views on the NHS
Recently, as a result of my wife being admitted into A&E and thence onto an associated ward in our local hospital on a number of occasions over several months, having had her scan appointment to assist in achieving a diagnosis, cancelled several times, I made...
How a simple visit to RAF Ballykelly resulted in an unexpected tour of the UK
It was 1963 and I was one of the Education Officers at No 4 School of Technical Training, RAF Cosford, where two thousand Boy Entrants were under technical training and associated education programmes on a variety of engineering and allied courses. It was...
CAN WE EVER ACHIEVE WORLD-WIDE ACTION?
There are many world-wide issues that can only be solved by total world-wide effort and action, but I fear that we may never see any of these tackled in unison and eradicated. One, of course, is the eradication of the current deadly virus, or protection from it, and...
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD?
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. A few days ago, late in the afternoon, I drove into the edge of town and parked up my car on a...