A Funeral Fit for a Queen
The Queen died. To most people who hear the words ‘The Queen’ the only queen that comes to mind is Queen Elizabeth II, the only queen most of us know and the queen who, according to a friend, managed to reinvent the monarchy, while making it look as if the reinvention was long lived tradition. […]
The Pandemic and Putin – Our Precarious Reality
We started to hear about the virus in January 2020 or so, while the bushfires in Australia were still foremost in our minds and hearts. While we were still coming to grips with the ferociousness of the fires that wiped out so much of our country and hoping this was the worst 2020 had to […]
Some Thoughts on Climate Change and Global Warming
I have been reading Sir David Attenborough’s latest book, A Life on the Planet -My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53916142-a-life-on-our-planet?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=566rrPbWme&rank=1 ), with increasing dismay as the news (certainly not new to me but elaborated by this venerated, seasoned planet warrior, who has spent years examining the length, depth and heights of […]
Storage Solutions and Decluttering
Buying a bigger house or buying or building more storage options is not, in my opinion, the way to solve storage problems. In the western world there is a huge storage issue, caused by the enormous potential to own and acquire more and more stuff and the seemingly endless needs human being think they have […]