by Jack Barrow | May 26, 2018 | General Blog, reviews
Before we set off on the Scotland Tour at the beginning of May I had the thought of writing a travel blog each day as I did when I went on my travelogue tour some years ago. That idea turned out to be a little ambitious when it was pointed out that I didn’t want to...
by Jack Barrow | Apr 3, 2018 | General Silliness
So, I decided to eschew teabags what with the discovery of plastic in the paper of just about every teabag in the world. (Was it always thus?) I tweeted Yorkshire Tea to blackmail them with a public threat to desert them if they didn’t remove the plastic...
by Jack Barrow | Feb 15, 2018 | Magic, Science, Technology, Thoughts and Observations
In my coming travelogue (too long in the pipeline) I discuss two ways of looking at and dealing with the world, that I describe as rational and irrational approaches. The irrational approach is often described as magical thinking. Wikipedia defines magical thinking as...
by Jack Barrow | Feb 6, 2018 | Current Affairs, Media, Non Fiction, Paganism, Politics, Publishing
They are saying that as of today, 06 February 2018, the Berlin wall has been down one day longer than it stood, or something like that because I’m not checking the figures. I grew up with the Berlin Wall, having been born in 1963. I thought of it as a permanent...
by Jack Barrow | Jan 5, 2018 | General Silliness, R2D2, reviews
I’ve been away you know. You may not know, other than the lack of posts over the last couple of weeks, but I’ve been in Amsterdam with friends for New Year where we played murder mystery and I played Enrico the farm hand with an outrageous west country accent and many...
