Flights of the butterfly

  • JOKES

    Difficult to know where to begin. Looked at the paper this morning and thought I’d opened a jokebook by mistake. Bojo will tell the Covid Panto that he delayed lockdown “amid concerns that people would tire of the restrictions and flout the rules”. Shorthand for “he thought they would be as greedy, self-centred and stupid…

  • ISRAEL, GAZA AND FREE SPEECH

    The law does not allow me to express my opinion on this or any other matter. Consider this: You are asked a panel of ten questions and you have promised to answer honestly. Questions 1 – 8 are  no problem. But, your honest answer to question 9 is proscribed by law. Therefore you do not…

  • In a French village

    Four plaques on a wall in the sun Four brothers who died in a war. In the lane by the church, in the square with the flowers, It’s the price that one village has paid. There’s a list on the cross and a list by the flags, carved in the hard black stone. It seems…

  • POOR LITTLE SOD

    It was early afternoon when they bounced us on the track, And there wasn’t any cover to be had. But, they didn’t have high ground, so it wasn’t all that bad And I found a little shell hole built for two. The bloke already in it had been there half a week, His head was…