Author Archives: theqbitblogger

A wag sent me the above today which is obvious as you are about to find out. I preferred to reply by sending him Psalm 14 verse 1 which tells us that only a fool would say there is no God. Boris Johnson famously said this recently when he was asked if he was aContinue reading “April Fool”

Yes, its been commercialised but today is Mothers Day. As we all honour our Mothers past and present it is good to single out a day but for all of us it’s every day. Some Mothers give birth to us some like step Mothers come forward at a time , some have chosen to adoptContinue reading “Mothers”

These two I saw sitting on a supermarket shelf and I decided to buy them, for who I don’t know but that doesn’t matter for the moment it made me think. Interestingly a one or many are all sheep, there are no sheeps ( no such word ) but they gather in a flock. TheContinue reading “Sheep”

Today is the feast celebration of Joseph, the step father of Jesus and a direct descendant of King David ( of I killed Goliath fame ). We can’t write too much about the man simply because we know very little. In the four Gospels he never speaks. What we do know is that Joe wasContinue reading “Joseph”

Whilst number crunching today I thought of this. When interest rate base rate in the UK was 0.25% we were told that the annual rate of inflation was 2.5%, that’s 10 times more. Yesterday the interest rate was increased to 0.75% roughly 10 times less than the projected rate of inflation of 8%. We areContinue reading “Number Crunching.”

We rarely see the Union Jack flag these days and though in the Olympics we trade under the brand Britain name the mention is less and the Great prefix looks depleted. Gone are the days of Empire and we are now imposter world leaders. Brexit led us of course out of the European Union andContinue reading “Union Jacked”

March is the month of Spring, new life and hope in a new season. Yet in 2022 there is War in Europe and death of innocent people, millions losing their home and misery among the masses.William Shakespeare told us to ‘ beware of the ides of March ‘ which in Roman times was the 74thContinue reading “Czar Wars.”

For the dyslexic there is confusion in letter order. For the mainstream there remains confusion as to whether Kyiv and Kiev are one and the same. Indeed they are the same City , named by the Ukrainians as Kyiv and the Russians Kiev. There is no dish after all as Chicken Kyiv only Chicken KievContinue reading “#KYIVNOTKIEV”

The Calm before the Storm originated with sailors at sea who often noticed a very peaceful calm just before a mighty storm. This idiom is often figuratively used in real life situations when a calm period in one’s life can suddenly erupt into chaos and challenge. Today we are expecting Storm Eunice in England andContinue reading “Calm before the Storm”

A Septic tank is an on site sewage system. A sceptic is a person of doubt about normal opinion. The tank like the brain of a sceptic is out of the box, non conventional and full of waste crap that occasionally gets emptied. At a time when there is much to be sceptical about inContinue reading “A Septic Sceptic”