Author Archives: theqbitblogger

The Blogger took a day off ( he thought) when invited to Lords last Thursday to see England play South Africa on the second day of a 5 day Test Match. Cricket is a complicated game certainly rarely understood by Americans for example. Why on earth would someone play a game for 5 days andContinue reading “Attention Span.”

Wearing longer sleeves Seeing falling leaves In August, is this climate change Or thoughts deranged ? Changing faces at ten and eleven Is it hell or is it heaven For all of us, let’s not fuss Sunak, Zahawi and Liz Truss. Inflation rate rising, unemployment fall Is someone making the wrong call Yes I tellContinue reading “Is it Change ?”

The sun seems getting very close We are all getting an extra dose Of infrared radiation Not too good for the health of the nation Now we are told that we have a drought Short water, money in our pockets nowt Destroying nation like Icarus flying, to the sun Basic commodities soon to be noneContinue reading “Sun days”

As the temperature rises in this summer of madness, As the news conveys perpetual sadness, Media, social public platforms, Twitter , Meta and Tik Tok Reaching out to find a sock , to put in it all. To switch off , the easiest option From all the scandals and all corruptions Alas we are allContinue reading “Be Glad.”

What sounds worse, interest rates went up 40% today or interest rates rose by one half of one per cent today ? Both statements are accurate yet the first is the most sensational in the world of fear. It is fear that is the forerunner of crisis when bad decisions are made as we allContinue reading “It’s the way you tell them.”

Am I missing something ?. The phrase ‘ poke the bear ‘ means deliberately provoking someone or some entity that is more powerful than you. Doing so is likely to result in serious damage being done to you. To do so would require a very good reason and an even better escape plan. In theContinue reading “Why poke the Bear ( now Dragon )”

Edith Nesbit originally serialized The Railway Children in The London Magazine 1905. The story of a lovely family broken when the Father is wrongly accused of Espionage and life’s economics dictate they must leave their London home and move to a rented Cottage ( Three Chimneys ) in the English countryside. The Father is punishedContinue reading “When life goes off the rails.”

To turn a blind eye means to pretend to not notice something. The very saying is contradictory. If the eye is blind then you can’t see something in the first place. Further why on earth would you need to turn away the head with the eye in it if it was blind ? The factContinue reading “Turn a blind eye.”

Home ownership dictates the national Politic. The English man’s home is his castle turned post war Britain towards the right wing. For years particularly in America there has been the fear of Communist infiltration towards the left wing. However since 1990 nowhere in the world has seen a greater swing right , than in China.Continue reading “The Politics of Housing, China style.”

I woke up this morning with a sense of Great insignificance after having seen the pictures from the James Webb Telescope. All my troubles seemed crass and more importantly a waste of thought time. In the round my circa three score and ten adds up to little and life really is like a vapour. SeeingContinue reading “Grains of Sand.”