This is an extended version of the eulogy I wrote for my father and which I gave at his funeral last Monday. I’m putting this up because some of you will be aware of the difficulties I had with him, especially in his final years. Those difficulties may have left a very limited sense of […]
For many years the view among historians was that the English archers’ arrows could not have penetrated the French soldiers’ armour at Agincourt. That view has been demolished because of fairly recent examinations of the skeletons of archers of the period, and experiments using medieval longbows:
In the 1980s - a terrible decade for industrial accidents - James Reason
and John Wreathall developed the 'Swiss cheese' model of human error.
My resolve not to leave a mess for my children has become harder.
Earlier this month I was fortunately able to escape the oppressive grey that hung over the West of England, by taking up the offer of an inexpensive break in Kos.
The end of throwaway culture can't come soon enough and the producers who suffer should not be missed.
What we do now may have a profound influence on the sort of future we'll experience.
The grim events of this year have, nonetheless, brought 'fringe benefits' beyond the cleaner air, quieter roads, more audible birdsong and time for personal reflection.
It has been indisputably established that public perception of risk is poor and warped by media coverage of events.