by David West | Oct 12, 2022 | News
I guess I should have heard of Medgar Evers. To my shame, I had not, but it’s never too late to learn. The Craft by John Dickie just keeps on delivering. Medgar Evans was a NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi. NAACP was the National Association for the Advancement of...
by David West | Oct 11, 2022 | News
Today seems to be a day of waiting. I picked up my new phone yesterday and now I’m waiting for it to restore all the data from the cloud. You can probably tell from the photo why I needed a new phone. I made the mistake of having the old one in my back pocket, and...
by David West | Oct 9, 2022 | News
I’ve just returned from a reunion of the St Edmund Hall engineers class of 1979. Covid, or suspected Covid, left us two short. It always amazes me how we fit back together after forty-three years as if they had been a few weeks. Of course time and illness leaves a...
by David West | Oct 6, 2022 | News
Intolerance is on my mind. I mentioned in my post connections that I’m reading The Craft by John Dickie. I will write a review in Readers Club when I’ve finished it. In the meantime, amongst the many things that have caught my attention, the first paragraph of chapter...
by David West | Oct 5, 2022 | News
Thanks to Alexander Armstrong on Classic FM, I have learnt that today 5th October is Global James Bond Day. Apparently this is because the first film in the franchise, Dr No was released on this day in 1962. The day became James Bond Day in 2012 to mark the 50th...
