Observations on the world and its inhabitants
Right – so I moved out of Northern Ireland a few weeks ago. That was not an easy decision. Eventually the ‘pain’ of staying in that job exceeded the ‘pleasures’ of Northern Ireland. Calm down – in case your imagination based on some script begins to run wild. Overview on NI experience Northern Ireland is … Read more
Guilty by Reason of Sanity, is coming! I’m putting out some previews into the public domain. It is a lot of work happening on this. I’m proofing every word of it using text to speech techniques built into Windows 11 and some from Text Aloud. Call me a cheapskate – I’ve been called worse – … Read more
This is a follow up to Guilty by reason of sanity: the ultimate insanity in Sept 2022. The book has taken a lot of effort. The book cover and title are copyrighted. No other book exists by that exact title. It’s not easy to dig back into memories – many quite traumatic. There will be … Read more
You couldn’t make it up! The story below is truly beyond ridiculous. But.. but it comes on the back of two other recent investigations (see below). You’d think that ‘they’d be more cautious’ but no. See the Panorama investigation into Edenfield in the last quarter of 2022 (full credits to the BBC). Sorry, it cannot … Read more
The words in the title of this post ‘guilty by reason of sanity‘ cannot be found on Google without other words before or after. You can find ‘Not’ in front of the words. What is it It is the title of a book, I’m considering writing. What motivates the title is that on many occasions, … Read more
Some will be reaching for Google and dictionaries on this. Some fine examples of Barnum statements, “Humans a not perfect“, or “Everybody makes mistakes – are you perfect?” or “Not everybody is a scientist.” The words seem to hold a truth held dear by ordinary people. But in essence they lack depth by the way … Read more
What people want is a simple answer that will put them back on a track that they should have been on. I’ve seen it before and I’ve seen it today 13th June 2021 again, between 17:45 to 18:10PM. In essence someone who referred to me as a ‘friend’ – and I am not their friend … Read more
If someone declares that they have a mental disorder, most other people know that they’re to respond with sympathy. Of course, I expect to hear ‘Not necessarily‘, ‘It depends‘, and ‘not everybody‘ etc etc. Well stuff it – when anybody declares that they have depression, I know the reactions I see. Nobody has authority over … Read more
Oh well, as I do on a Sunday morning (2021-01-31) I read many of the broadsheets and some tabloids. There’s so much going on the world these days, it is very difficult to decide what to focus on. You could spend your life reading everything on COVID-19 (Cornavirus or SARS-Cov-2). But I came across an … Read more