A Disorderly Retirement
We recently spent a few days in Buxton, Derbyshire, where we stayed in a wonderfully traditional English guesthouse and generally felt as though we’d travelled back in time. This very proper spa town has a long history of genteel people visiting to take the waters to ease their various ailments, including Mary Queen of Scots,…
I wonder if everyone is still madly doing Wordle? After conducting a brief and highly unscientific survey of half a dozen people I would guess not as much as they were. We love novelty, but only while it’s still novel and then we get bored and move on. I think the man who invented Wordle…
I have just read about a Microsoft study claiming that the average person has an attention span of 8 seconds, 1 less than a goldfish. A quick Google search revealed that the study was done in 2015, so it’s hardly breaking news and I don’t know why it’s being reported now. Perhaps our ability to…
It all started when I got lost in the woods. This is particularly embarrassing because the woods are directly across the road from our house and I have been walking in them for 30 years. Everything was fine until I decided to be adventurous and head off down a new path. On the whole, I…