The “word” poteeweet—usually printed as po-tee-weet or poo-tee-weet—is the last word, “spoken” by a bird, of Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Slaughterhouse 5. The novel follows it’s hero, Billy Pilgrim, through time and space, from his home town of Ilium, NYC, to his being exhibited in a zoo on the planet of Tralfamadore, to the battlefields [...]

As you know, today is the anniversary of when the USA finally decided that it could get things at least as wrong as if not more so than its incumbent overlord and therefore declared independence from the unreasonable Brits and in so doing launched itself on its own trajectory towards being a global power and [...]

Mel, me and thousands of others had a splendid time in Hyde Park watching and listening as Blur treated us to a long set, which differed not at all it seemed from their Glastonbury set, of some lovely songs from yesteryear. Seemingly to enhance their enjoyment lots of people threw empty or nearly-empty plastic beer [...]

Recently a friend asked me to recommend a book and I suggested he read Harry Mulisch’s “The discovery of heaven”, a fabulous, ambitious and awe-inspiring work of art. This morning I revisited my suggestion—my friend wanted to read something that would be relevant and stimulating to the atheist—and found myself wondering why I’d not added [...]

… to this site … Of late I have changed the design of this site, added a few links including one to my cricket team’s web site and another to a little-used, twitter-type site I put together recently called poteeweet? And a twitter feed … And a toaster and a cuddly toy and a fluffy [...]

At work recently discussion turned to the capabilities of the WordPress web publishing package used very often for implementing blogs. I’d never used WordPress and so thought I’d have a play with it, the upshot of which was an updated personal home page, where you’re reading this, and a new site – www.poteeweet.com – which [...]

And what a lovely, sunny (part of) the world it is today here in Winchester. We are preparing for a pic-nic and so I had better stop making myself unpopular by tapping away here and go and get the sandwiches, frisbies and boomerangs ready …

At some point I shall hopefully get around to publishing some content other than a link to my CV.