Being a proud Englishman is not such an easy card to play these days. Fraught with dangers for its connotations and connections to lots of unpleasant isms; nationalism, colonialism, imperialism… England are currently the world champion cricketers and last weekend, we had the chance to reign over the Rugby Union world also and this would […]
It’s good to be wrong…
We live in increasingly tense and fractious times with heightened levels of anxiety. Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I know nothing. That I am frequently wrong but often with happy consequences, for instance, Tom confounding all of my predications on his chances in the world of show-biz. An attritional business in […]
Life in the slow lane…
I confess a few times in Eclipsed that I have never been cool, trendy nor fashionable. I see hip youngsters nowadays covered in tattoos and piercings and I shudder. Surely, being fashionable these days has never required such complete and total commitment to the cause – not to mention pain. My need to be fashionable […]
The big leagues…
Eagle eyed readers of this blog will have noticed that I have fallen foul of Google again; a repeat offender no less and such that my site is deemed unsuitable to carry any adverts. This is irksome. I refute whatever transgressions I am accused of and I don’t have any inclinations (nor abilities) to have […]
My remarkable body…
Who doesn’t wonder in awe at our bodies, what they can do and what we humans are capable of? Run a marathon in less than 2 hours and create innovations like mobile phones and electric cars. Admittedly such accomplishments are mainly the feats of other (more remarkable) people but nonetheless, all feats we can marvel […]
Do I know you know who I am…
As the world knows now, at a comic-con in Chicago, Tom and Harry took to the floor disguised behind Thanos masks to avoid the obvious commotion if he appeared au natural. A little boy stopped them and asked if he could be photographed with the two Thanos’s (I am unsure of the plural) after which […]