Wollaton today
25
Apr
A pair of Egyptian geese with only one gosling, my best pictures yet of those fallow deer – and the woods a blue shimmering haze. A few of the images at Wollaton Park on what is forecast to be the … Read More »
Category Archives: life
The myth of CV-19
23
Apr
Here’s a full list of postal districts for the Coventry (CV) postal area: Granted, when I checked three other postal areas – Sheffield, Nottingham and Slough – they too showed gaps in the district numbering. Still, makes you wonder, innit? … Read More »
Walking the Erewash
21
Apr
Don’t say ‘earwash’. I’ve penned this ode to not making a fool of yourself around these parts. Yesterday I drove to Toton Fields, bottom right on the map and a mile east of Long Eaton, to let the dogs out. … Read More »
The Soar on Sunday
19
Apr
Guardian, April 16 * . Drive through Long Eaton past Trentlock. Cross the Trent at Sawley. Left after the Marina, onto Warren Lane. Park at corner of Warren and Ratcliffe Lanes (GR 478 294). Follow paths and country lanes past … Read More »
Easter at Wollaton Park
15
Apr
Stands about the woodland ride … … wearing white for Eastertide … … though white is not the only colour … … nor flora the only life … … nor red the only deer … … nor deer the … Read More »
Science for the righteous
15
Apr
Is it just me? Or should we all be wary when a forty-five word tweet houses three instances of science, one of non-scientists, one rational, a hysteria, a hysterical, a don’t-know-anything and, for good measure, one old fashioned scream? Oh, and … Read More »
A tale of two doctors
13
Apr
Bewildered? Mistrustful? You should be. Here’s Peter Koenig, writing yesterday for Information Clearing House: On March 26, in a peer-reviewed article in the highly reputed New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID (National Institute of … Read More »
Pandemic, super-capitalism and struggle
12
Apr
The civilizational crisis of our age, in my view, is defined by capitalism’s inability to generate incomes for the majority of humanity, to provide jobs and meaningful social roles, end fossil fuel emissions, and translate revolutionary biological advances into public … Read More »
More questions
11
Apr
In the few days since that Telegraph story, the figure for London bus driver deaths attributed to CV-19 has risen to nine. See the WSWS piece, “They are doing absolutely nothing to protect us!”, for fuller coverage of what even … Read More »
“Let the kids spread the virus!”
9
Apr
I have come across this extraordinary interview by Professor Knut Wittkowski, an epidemiologist who states in powerful form why social distancing will prolong but not eliminate the disease. His insights go a long way toward explaining why recent data has … Read More »