Category: Thoughts and Observations

  • As a gentleman of a certain age, I must admit that I struggle to understand much about modern society, especially things like pronouns & gender identification. When I hear of people referring to themselves as ‘they’ & ‘them’, or others who identify as a ‘cat’ or a ‘frog’, it does seem rather weird to me.…

  • That initial escape from Dortmund to Frankfurt gave me the confidence to go on adventures further afield & over the next couple of years, I forayed all over Germany by train.  I went to Kiel in the north, to München in the south, to Hanover in the east & to Köln in the west –…

  • Although there are a multitude of answers to the particular question of why? such as, because they are there, because I was frightfully drunk, & because the sheep had lovely eyes, the reason I have posed this question as a title was to give you an insight into why I started this blog.  So, here…