Archive for December 2013

There are, in my Chambers’ Dictionary, almost six definitions of must. These range from its use to express compulsion, necessity or obligation – right through to musk; hair powder and the verb to powder. Of course, the latter ones are of pretty obscure usage, and ...

In amidst the bubbling and boiling emotional sea that can beset the voyage of any dementia carer, there can be intuitive and insightful moments. Needless to say, the depth to which we are almost submerged in that sea can mask any level of learning and ...

Isn’t it in the very nature of parables and intuitions that sometimes they are framed up in the oddest ways? Now I’d like to aver at the outset, that THE world really is akin to that never ceasing and random quantum soup that Nobel Prize ...

I was on a train the other day and four young lads got on and came and sat across the aisle from me. I surmised they were good buddies from their casual demeanour and body language – and there were no particular leaders and followers, ...