For quite awhile now I’ve used mental visualisation of what I would like my future to be. Originally it started when I was only teenager.  I was serving an engineering apprenticeship and saw an advertisement for the Royal Marine Reserves based at Morpeth Dock in Birkenhead on the banks of the River Mersey.  We use […]

History is important for us today why? Because what happened in the past can happen again in the future.  As a young boy we celebrated BonFire Night with fire works and a Bonfire ( a large open air fire ) with fire works such as bangers,rockets, riffraffs and sparklers. And a big bonfire on an

I nearly used a four letter swear word for this blog post title.  That’s how I feel about the fiasco of Conference of the Parties. I read that the young Swedish girl Greta Thunberg isn’t going to attend as she said at the last COP it was all “blah blah blah!”  Why is it we can’t

Experiment: a course of action taken or adopted without being sure of the outcome?  I was born in 1951 in the Wirral on the banks of the River Mersey. I first lived in a council house or state housing on Love Lane. Near the old railway lane running from Bidston to Wallasey Seacombe. At the

I arrived back in the U.K. on the 22nd September in the early hours after flight from Kos which left at 04.30. The ferry from Lakki Leros left the previous morning at 00.30 on the morning of the 21st. Arriving in Kos town at 03.00.  My hotel was booked for 21st through Booking.com but couldn’t

Maybe like me you don’t fully understand how governments through central banks raise money to pay for government expenditure.  What is government expenditure? What do they need money for?  1.Social Protection ( Welfare ) 2.health (NHS) 3.Education   4.industry, agriculture & employment  5.Defence 6.Personal & Social Services 7.Public Order ( The Police )  8.Transport  9.Other 10.Debt

Armageddon meaning; conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil. As young soldier with the Royal Engineers  during are basic training we spent a week involved and learning about biological and nuclear warfare.  On exercise we had to dig a deep two man trench and place what was called a kip sheet( simple water proof rectangular

Earlier this year I cancelled doing the Jester Challenge which is a solo race from Plymouth in the U.K. to Newport Rhode Island.  It starts from Plymouth on the 1st May 2022 unfortunately this year none of the contestants made it across the North Atlantic to America.  A number of the boats which are all

For the past few years on the political front I’ve been concerned about how the US with Trump and with the U.K. with Johnson had taken us down a strange route with reality or may I say non reality from my point of view.  Trump has caused polarisation in the US with his lies and

Remember we all have to die.  A rather morbid expression you might think to start a blog post. But it’s a truth non of us mortals can completely ignore this great truth in life because life and death are so intertwined.  We all know we are going to die but non of us know when? Being