Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
Archives for July 2019
View From The Cheap Seats
“The marketing department asked people who didn’t watch cricket what they didn’t like about cricket and most of them said the cricket, so that’s what they are trying to get rid of.”
Martin Samuel, Daily Mail – describing the ECB’s new Hundred format.
Tales From The Scruffy
“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.” James Freeman Clarke
Another one from this month’s Trumpit vanishing faster from the shelves than a politician’s promises into thin air. Speaking of which, since my piece Sport For Votes, I have tried very hard to elicit a sensible reply from the Great Leader, Cllr Hapless. Regrettably, in common with most who swim in her pool, she seems incapable of answering simple questions.
To Ada And Back
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch
Taken from this month’s edition of The Trumpit.
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