A Halloween tale, a day late due to busyness. ***** The young woman had been job hunting for a month.  Job hunting was expected of her, that much she knew.  You didn’t finish two degrees and then sit around wishing you could take early retirement, … Continue reading Nobody Ever Leaves Here

I’ve just come back from a week in the Lake District. My first holiday in the Lakes - hopefully not the last. The Lake District. Once home to Wordsworth; poncing about in the daffodils, declaiming nuggets of poetic wisdom, his sister meekly trailing up the … Continue reading Of Mice and (Wo)Men

I sang with choir no.1 last Saturday, in our local, very small library.  This was our second performance at this prestigious venue. The last time we sang there, we attracted an audience of six, and one of those had been the husband, who I’d press … Continue reading The Library, the Flash Mob and a Heatwave

My neighbour, but one, died nearly three weeks ago.  He’d been a neighbour for 34 years.  Our nearest neighbour informed us of his death over the garden fence. It was a shock.  It was the kind of shock where you don’t quite believe it, thinking … Continue reading In Memoriam (II)

Blog, I’ve neglected thee, so on with this nothing sort of a post so we can catch up. I’ve been knitting like crazy again because son No.1 and GF bought me a knitting book for Christmas featuring animal patterns by Sarah Keen.  This follows a … Continue reading Mostly Waffle

I’ve just finished my second reading of Shirley Jackson’s short ghostly novel.  Short novels are such a blessing in this digital age – just long enough, in this case 246 pages, to capture and maintain my ever-decreasing attention span (your own attention span may be … Continue reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson – Disjointed Musings Thereof

*Not many spoilers at all* Let’s start at the very beginning; a very good place to start…….oops, wrong film and I was thinking about Julie Andrews, but I’m not thinking about Julie anymore (such is the quicksilver and mostly hollow nature of fame) and that’s … Continue reading Mary Poppins Returns

Such has been my level of busy-ness over the past few weeks that one family member asked if I’d retired from the blog that no-one reads.  We’ve had builders in and I’m now in the process of painting all the rooms they made alterations to … Continue reading The Christmas Lunch

(I've been reading seminal papers on artificial intelligence, some of them surprisingly old, by several geniuses in the field, none of whom I'd heard of.  However old you get, there's always a world of things out there that you don't know.  They got me thinking … Continue reading The Turing Test

(With Spoiler) First Man is l-o-n-g at 2 hrs 21 minutes and not a second too long in my opinion.  You might think that, of all films, this one would be a spoiler-free zone – after all we know its hero made it safely to … Continue reading First Man