I recently found a photograph from a few years ago. I got chatting to my 17 yr old lass and my 13 yr old lad about it and said that I loved the photo, but that perhaps some folk would see it and think that “maybe it gives off a whiff of… ‘white saviour.’ You […]
Choose Your Stomping Ground Wisely
“How did we come to live here, Mum?”“Well. We were living in the Kalahari as you know … and we needed to leave because the secret police kept giving us hassle”“Seriously?”“Yeah. Once they were tailing your dad in his Hilux and he stopped. They stopped. And he got out and walked back to them and […]
All Shook Up In’th Shops (part 1)
Some readers of this blog will know that I don’t really do shopping. Well, high street shopping I mean. I hate the same blandness that 95% of the stores here in the UK represent these days. I despise the way that the big chains and the corporates assume that we’re a bunch of brainless, zombified […]