Paths and Digressions launched
Publishers Dempsey and Windle hosted the on line launch of Tony’s new poetry collection, Paths and Digressions, before an attentive and appreciative audience in an evening featuring readings from guest poets Liz Barton and Susan Thomas and a lively question and answer session. More events are planned, with the next launch event on 30th June […]
What can I say?
The photo says it in a way. The future is shrouded in mist, the difference being that the mist is rather attractive while the future looks less so. Why? Because we’re faced with a climate emergency and we’ve spent the last few years with a governing party which seems increasingly complacent. Because we’re faced with […]
Yorkshire Day
Yesterday was Yorkshire Day. Always special for an exiled tyke, but of special relevance to Blessed Assurance with two of the main protagonists growing up there and a bolt hole for one of them in Nidderdale. So the image of a White Rose is the right one for this week’s blog. It’s also a timely […]
Threats and opportunities
I’ve attended two meetings in the last couple of days about threats, one about cyber crime, about which more another time, and one about the climate emergency. The landscape picture above was once a sea. Could it be again? Well, probably not but a lot of coastal land could be as we know. With governments […]