A Gentleman Traveller

So for many of if you have read this blog in the past, you will know that I am not religious at all having left the Christian faith at the age of seventeen. But I do go with my family to Church when I am with them on Christmas and at Easter...it was at the later of these celebrations of the Christian faith where I was inspired to write this latest entry. Now perhaps I should give more to this story, as it was in a Church of England (CofE) service the during perhaps the most important service on their calendar. Their services tend be rather joyful with a somewhat energetic priest in the pulpit, lots of fun hymns to sing and also tend to be very child friendly. Remember this is not a Catholic Church service, so the idea of being "Child Friendly" does not mean anything untoward, in the Catholic Church being child friendly tends to mean a law suit. The CofE hasn't to my knowledge payed out a fortune on child molestation settlements nor can they afford what their counter par...

Just when you thought that the world couldn't get even stranger at all, a few years ago George W. Bush (Jr or Snr take your pick), Dick Cheney, Mr and Mrs Blair and John Prescott led the list of world leaders who you would have thought would have been dropped on their heads at birth, and some of which would make you think; " Thats a face only a mother could love " or " My Gosh they have a face fit for radio". Yet today we have an even greater collection of weirdness to choose from, this list is so large I need to in fact put in a proper bulleted list. I might add that those in this list, make those in the one above seem not only to be attractive but also highly intelligent.... Jeremy Corbyn Donald J. Trump Sadik Kahn  Nigel Farage  Recep Tayyip Erdogan Bernie Sanders Ted Cruz François Hollande Benjamin Netanyahu Now perhaps notable exemption from this list is Vladimir Putin, he is the only one to have succeeded and in a country that is as diffi...