Flights of the butterfly

  • Lavender, Angela, Bees and Snails

    Outside my front door, there are two plants, Lavender and Angela. I don’t know what type Angela is, that’s her business. When I first moved in, we had a very hot summer and Angela died. She was nothing but shrivelled brown leaves on brittle twigs. I cleaned up the mess until there was only one…

  • Vegans

    I thought of trying the vegan diet. But, I cannot find any locally sourced organic, free-range vegans. I ordered a vegan take-away once, but all I got was a stupid vegetable curry. Mind you, it probably had a higher IQ than most vegans. What do you think happens to all those fluffy bunny-wunnies, the baa-lambs,…

  • How big is infinity?

    This seems a silly question. You would think the answer is “bigger than that.” But take a look at this: All of these sequences go on “forever” (we’ll get back to that later) So they are all infinite series. But, logically, the lower rows seem to have fewer numbers than the “all” row. These are…

  • UFO/UAP Hearings

    David Grusch, giving evidence to a congressional committee: “was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering programme…….” Seriously? If, as some claim, these “UAPs” are extra terrestrial  in origin, we are talking of inter galactic, inter stellar, or at the very least inter planetary craft.…

  • ULEZ; London,  I weep for you

    London, the city I loved for nearly all my life. Her streets, her pride, her glories and her shames. Her parks and spaces, her broken down slums. Her lakes, her rivers. I watched her grow from weed strewn bombsites to the golden ‘60s and on. She is closed now. A forbidden city, a sham, a…

  • Quote of the day: CH4

    Channel 4 News Trial of Kevin Spacey Gushing reporter: “If all the world’s a stage, then Southwark Crown Court is a thousand miles from Hollywood” It’s about 5,400 miles, Stupid. if you’re supposed to be a reporter, try and get some of your facts right. If you can’t get that right, how can we trust…

  • Wildfires

    Heat and wildfires are raging in Greece and Southern Europe. As I have said before, I cannot imagine what it feels like to lose your home, perhaps your entire neighbourhood and even, God help us, your loved ones. My words would be sham to the point of hypocrisy, so I will not write any. But,…

  • Understanding, Comprehension and Blackbirds

    Understanding is analytical. It is the process of examining the components, parts and processes of a system. Comprehension is the process of examining and reviewing a system as a whole. Blackbird (T.merula) is a songbird. I just looked him up: Europe, Asiatic Russia, North Africa. Gets about a bit. You can watch it. You can…

  • Of Nukes and Ships and other things

    As I sit here listening to the rain while Southern Europe turns to ash, this is a message to the Wokies, Greenies, Just Stop Oil, Tree huggers, Witchfinders and other tribes of the international TDandTS nation, the brain dead, the bigots. Your rush to condemnation has damaged progress, humanity and the environment for far too…

  • A biker’s thanks

    I have covered well over half a million miles on bikes, and in all that time there have been two, maybe three car drivers who have tried to “elbow” me out of the way.The rest have been courteous, considerate and helpful. To all of you, car, bus, HGV, thank you. On a motorcycle, you have both hands…