Unsurprisingly, this year’s lead-up to the Christmas period has been unlike any other. No-one really knew what was going to happen, so people threw themselves into buying cards and presents, decorating the tree and festooning the house and garden with lights. They have done it very early and with reckless abandon in order to convince…
Month: December 2020
Age and attitude
There is no doubt that each generation thinks quite differently from the one before. I’m not suggesting that everyone in a given generation has identical views, but there is often a sort of shorthand among people of a similar age. For instance, I can’t imagine that the Queen and Dick van Dyke have much in…
Give us this day
Although not a great poetry fan, I have to admit that some of those poets knew a thing or two. Philip Larkin often has an unexpectedly sideways view of life and I have always enjoyed his lines from the poem Days: ‘What are days for? Days are where we live.’ On one level it looks…