• on time

    one hot august pasttoo warm to sleep too much drunkjust a diary notedays tick over fastwater spins down the plug-hole years, not quite so muchn.b. Yer learn, as Pete Wylie sang. CLP 17/08/2023 Read more

  • on Ukraine

    billions of dollarsflood country drowning in warwho’s counting the cost? ~ n.b. In the end the money talks, lives remain cheap, expendable, as long as the cash keeps coming and corporations profit. This war will end when accountants get involved. I heard on the BBC that the Russian Rouble is worth just 1% of a Read more

  • on Ukraine

    Premier League footballthe war drones on endlesslyfire in Hawaii ~ n.b. The media faces some challenges in keeping things interesting, particularly without film releases, or coronations to fill the space, so aren’t news editors lucky to have the football money machine winding up for another season. CLP 11/08/2023 Read more

  • on Ukraine

    and so it goes onBakhmut brutally batteredvineyards run with blood ~ n.b. A state of siege around a wine producing city. Russian troops in the valley, freedom fighting army of Ukraine hold the western heights. No end in sight. CLP 10/08/2023 Read more

  • on the sea

    it’s always the sameevery incoming breakerdifferent from the last ~ CLP 31/07/2023 Read more

  • On Ukraine

    Moscow talks of talksso many broken bridgesyet to be repaired ~ n.b. Day 522 unfolding. CLP 30/07/2023 Read more