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Friday, 8 May 2020
“The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when …
Continue reading "Weekend Essay – the end of the beginning"
By John Pollock
Saturday, 18 April 2020
Dandum semper est tempus: ueritatem dies aperit. (We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discovers truth) – Seneca …
Continue reading "Weekend essay: Time saved and time served"
By John Pollock
Friday, 10 April 2020
“there is a treasure, if you can only find it, in the heart of every man” Winston Churchill, July 1910, …
Continue reading "Hunting for Easter treasure"
By John Pollock
Saturday, 4 April 2020
“Give me the occasional luxury, and I will forgo the essentials.” (T.E. Lawrence, in a letter to a friend in …
Continue reading "We’re all in the same boat now"
By John Pollock
Saturday, 14 March 2020
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure if one knows how to use it. …
Continue reading "Weekend Essay – a new virus for old people"
By John Pollock
Saturday, 29 February 2020
glowing coals meantime exhibit the shifting forms of hills and vales and gulfs…and walled towns appear, and figures of unknown …
Continue reading "Keep the (country) home fires burning"
By John Pollock
Saturday, 8 February 2020
If the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, Look and Learn was another world. They came …
Continue reading "Lost Classic – Look and Learn"
By John Pollock
Saturday, 1 February 2020
‘Long-winded disputes fill up the place of common sense and candid inquiry’ William Hazlitt, ‘On the Conduct of Life: or, …
Continue reading "All centuries start late – the 21st has just begun"
By John Pollock
