It was Shakespeare’s Hamlet who, in a fit of angst about whether or not to kill his father’s murderer, said: ‘there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so’. By the same token we could say a gun isn’t in itself a good or a bad thing. A gun can be used… Read more

My cat died last Sunday; Tommy was very, very old. He was deaf, arthritic, losing weight and struggling to make it to the cat tray. He had a great innings, as they say, and I’ve had pets die before. What was different about this one? Well, his deafness meant he became my shadow in his… Read more

A few weeks back a friend asked me how I chose topics for this blog. It was a really good question and I gave a really bland answer. I said I just write about whatever’s on my mind at the time and, sometimes, just what I’ve been following on YouTube! Nothing deeper or more structured… Read more

C S Lewis, in his Argument from Desire, wrote: ‘If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.’ In other words, humanity’s innate longing for something more than the material world can offer is itself perhaps evidence… Read more

There’s been quite a bit of angst on social media and in the mainstream press due to the graffiti-style artwork that Canterbury Cathedral is hosting at the moment. It’s called ‘Hear Us’ and, though it’s the wrong end of the country for me to visit, I’m quite taken with the idea of modern urban angst… Read more