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It’s Cold Out, Baby
All of a sudden, the trees are bare. Their wealth of green leaves have briefly turned the colours of the rainbow, and then their autumn mantle has disappeared and they line the streets and pathways, a hazard for those areas where rain has plastered them to the ground and made their surfaces a slippery danger for the unwary. The weather has changed, and the temperature dropped into single figures (centigrade, for those using outdated measuring systems). Winter is staring us in the face, challenging us to fight it for a last few moments of sun and warmth before the frost coats our lawns and, perhaps, snows fall and obliterate everything.…
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Fielding the Three Big Questions
There is a certain attraction to traditions, especially when visiting foreign lands, which draws tourists and others into a spiral of mixed feelings. On the one hand, it is good to see that the old ways are being respected and upheld. On the other the question of why people cannot simply let go, especially when it comes to traditions filled with outdated pomp and circumstance, costing the taxpayer a fortune without bringing them any benefits. Just as not everything which is new is good and worth pursuing, so it is with the old; there comes a time when traditions need to be consigned to the history books, taught in classes,…
