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Rugging It…

I’ve gone mad for rugs. I don’t know why but since this lockdown business I have been online buying rugs. You could say I have been ‘rugging it’. I am ‘rugging’ every room in the home. So, I’ve just taken delivery of four rugs from Ikea. Three for the kitchen…

This has to stop!

This has to stop! This police harassment and brutality of Black people has to stop. Now. Since the murder of George Floyd, Breoana Taylor and others that led to the Black Lives Matter worldwide protests, I have kept my peace, choosing to reflect on this sorry state of affairs in…

‘Rehoming’ for kids

‘Rehome’ your child. ‘Rehome’ your (young) son. That’s a new one on me! Like many, I guess, I always associated the term ‘rehoming’ with an animal. You know, you ‘rehome’ a dog or a cat, after they have been mended in a rescue facility or ‘rehome’ a formerly caged animal…

When spitting is not a crime…

Have I missed something here? The last time I heard – well, to be more precise, the last time I had contact with the criminal justice system and the law (in my professional capacity, you understand) – deliberately spitting at someone was a criminal offence, under the Criminal Justice Act…

‘Let Me Tell You Something’, Lovelock’s humor offers guide

Want some insights on feminism, religion, politics that will make you laugh, cry, or scream? You’ll find them all in a book by J.A. Lovelock. Her unique wit and engaging musings, that come from experiences and observations on contemporary life, is probably what is needed to escape a life filled…

On Social Distancing

Let me tell you, I am a person of faith and I believe that ‘all things are possible’ with God and that God can make a way in the wilderness and rivers to run in the desert and all that. However, when it comes to certain matters, I do not…

Man’s Best Friend?

I recently heard a story of how a marriage broke up when the wife came home to find her husband bathing their baby daughter and their dog together. That’s wrong. Even the dog looked as if he knew it was wrong. A dog is a dog. On no account should…

Who Cares Who You Are?!

Because of television shows like Who Do You Think You Are? and the rise in interest in checking one’s ancestry and genealogy, I am often asked if I would be interested in finding long lost or forgotten kinfolk. No thanks! Why would I want to do that? I have enough…

Racism Goes Both Ways

When a Black Oxford University student bragged on Facebook that he had reduced a white waitress to tears when he and his friend refused to tip her after she served them, he thought he was being smart. But he was the one left looking like a dunderhead after sympathisers raised…

How I Was Scammed

I am not normally one to be scammed; I am far too smart for that. However, on one occasion I came pretty close. Like many people, I was seduced by an online ‘free sample’ ad, and being partial to a little freebie here and there, a free jar of moisturiser…