Tag Archives: politics

“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life…de dum…de dum…”

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Francis Pryor

We Brits are meant to be good at keeping our peckers up and smiling through adversity. But lately I’ve been having trouble finding my pecker, let alone keeping it up. Everything seems so gloomy and pointless. And it all came … Continue reading →

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Back to Nature – Again!

Posted on May 13, 2019 by Francis Pryor

We are living through very strange times. Laying aside the political melt-down which has become part of everyday life in Britain, we also seem to have taken our eye off the climate change problem – what in the 1970s we … Continue reading →

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Wallpaper Words

Posted on February 5, 2019 by Francis Pryor

What has happened to the quality of political debate and discussion in modern Britain? I don’t know about anyone else, but I find I too often turn on the radio or open a newspaper, or worse, look at a current … Continue reading →

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Autumn Reflections

Posted on November 19, 2018 by Francis Pryor

I’ll start this post with a view of turning birch leaves taken in the glade garden a couple of days ago. At the time I was feeling more than a little stressed: the deadline to produce the final edited version … Continue reading →

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The Long View: from the Floor

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Francis Pryor

Introductory Note This is the original version of the item I posted in the Independent blog. As ever, I over-wrote and then had to cut it back to 800 words, which is what they’d requested in the first place. Trouble … Continue reading →

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