Grapes 2.0

If an infinite number of YouTube commenters watched an infinite number of videos, would one of them eventually post something intellig...

I’ve mentioned before that my first love was Hayley Mills, and in a way I’m still carrying a torch for her, 40+ years on. I looked for a p...

I’ve been reading the story of a boy who grew up an only child, in a household where his parents ignored him, and were indifferent to his co...

Leave Me from Daros Films on Vimeo .   Dear, when I am from thee gone, Gone are all my joys at once. I loved thee ...

But before going on with such explorations, a return to someone I’ve written about before here . Ilse Weber, a Moravian Jew, musician, write...

I’ve been considering the mental states of nostalgia, saudade and Sehnsucht, all of which seem to be local versions of various aspects of me...

Apparently Swiss mercenaries in the 17th and 18th centuries used to miss their homeland so much they often succumbed to a form of homesickne...

This week, it was revealed that Afghanistan is sitting on such a huge pile of mineral wealth it could become “the Saudi Arabia of lithium” –...

The Union of Belgian Optimists held their first-ever congress last week in Brussels. One of the speakers was the cardiologist to the King, P...

Two flavours/scents I can’t abide are cloves, and lavender. The new toothpaste, Crest, has the distinct flavour of cloves, which is odd ...

One of the hottest flames I’ve ever seen, and I was a flame warrior for quite a few years. Not a surprising opinion, but it’s all in the exp...

One thing that divides Man from the animals is our ability to perform useless actions in a graceful and beautiful way. That’s the only expla...

In a hotel room too hot, with foamy unsupportive pillows, I dreamed you were gone off with some man who seemed to have enchanted you. You ...

Bayliss: What if the one true love of your life was an Eskimo, and you lived in Des Moines? Pembleton: There are a lot of nice girls in ...

Oh my God, a Hollywood movie that romanticises the sacking of thousands of American workers. You don’t have to be Barbara Ehrenreich to fi...