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LEJOG

Raucous alarums

Something unusual happened to me the other evening, something I’m still digesting, I was complemented.

By pretty ladies.

Who meant it.

I’m still smiling

In absentia

As our nation rumbles ever onward into a sort of Orwellian milieu of CCTV, knee-jerk legislation and mindless, dribbling enforcement officers, I find myself thinking how sad it is to be living in the declining years of a once great nation. I doubt many people give it much thought, ensconced as they are in [...]

They call it road rage

Today started well, it was perhaps therefore inevitable that something should happen to ruin the mood; it is the way of things after all.

Usually my ride into work is a purely functional exercise, pedal, pedal, pedal, work. Bleh. But this morning was different, the sun was up, the wind was cool and clouds [...]

A. A. Milne – Daffodowndilly

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: “Winter is dead.”

Khalil Gibran – The Forerunner

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise [...]