I left Am@zon about three years ago – on the principle that I pay taxes and so should billionaire Jeff Bezos! – and I give my custom to local bookshops instead. I have recently closed my Tw@tter account and permanently deleted it. The Mastodon platform is a pleasant environment and it is astonishing that it … More I didn’t expect the Camino Inquisition

Rubí donkey writes her Tuesday blogue: Sometimes the Peasant is chaotic, and sometimes we donkeys are chaotic, and when peasants and donkeys are both chaotic, what quickly develops is… well, chaos. The multiple layers of carrot-chaos are truly amazing. That’s all. A short blogue post but it’s all in the video.

This is the sort of donkey behaviour we expect on a Wednesday. Never get this kind of madness on a Tuesday. The change in the weather is quite often responsible for a donkey riot and today the temperature has gone down, the wind has risen and the donkeys are also distressed by the general world … More Full scale donkey riot

Today at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 2022, I paused to remember those who gave their lives for their country. And I wondered what the Millennials were thinking as they marked that two minute silence. For I spent much of my final working years in the 21st century … More Remembrance with the Millennials

As the @EU_Commission Twitter account reminded us today, thirty three years ago the Berlin wall fell and the collapse of Soviet rule began, but I heard no news coverage of those 1989 events for I lived behind four walls in a monastery. There was no internet in those days, nor did we have TV, nor … More The Last Tweet