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The garden is one of our main focus and place of beauty and enjoyment during the Summer months, but much more so during the Coronavirally restricted lives we are having to live during 2020. So, do take a look and enjoy; if you will.

It would not have been the first time Hamilton had had such a misfortune, although it seemed somewhat longer than might have been the case.   But which is why, several laps before the end of the race, I found myself being tormented by visions of Hamilton's tyres disintegrating on him.  Of him getting so far but not making it to the end. It did not help when his team mate, Bottas, had one of his tires giving up the ghost and him falling back down the convoy.  It was a time for contemplating what might have been Hamilton's fate.  Fortunately for him and Team Mercedes and their fans, although he and his car was fated to loose most of their pace and time advantage.   Which was be enough to allow Verstappen The Intrepid to rapidly zoom in on Hamilton at the very end of the race to take P.2.   And contemplate how he could have overtaken his prey, providing his, Hamilton's tyre/s had not exploded first, if only he had another lap or half a lap to go.  On this day, it was not to be

According to a popular song, when the going or journey gets tough, the tough gets going.  So, ok, that might not be as obvious as it is meant to be. Which is that, as things gets tough or tougher, we are better able to see who are the toughest.   As it is they who will be able to dig deep into their more abundant reserve and keep going. And so it was for Lewis Hamilton and Team Mercedes, at Sunday's 2020 British Grand Prix at the Silverstone Circuit.   As we watched the battered, bruised and much degraded Black Arrow Car 44 limped upto the Checkered Flag and greeted it at the end of torrid last few laps of the race.  Yes, looking like a badly mauled mouse that had escaped from a ferocious battle with a large cat, was Car 44.  Or, finding a more fitting analogy, it would not have been amiss to say Lewis' car could be compared with how we would have expected a fright-shocked and bloodied Impala to look.   Having been lucky enough to escape from the jaws and claws of an hungry lio

Rights should as being able to practice their religion. Rights such as being able to continue to function as a family without the unnecessary and oppressive intervention of the Chinese state.  The right not to be deprived of their, the Uighurs, having the same freedom of movement which other Chinese, including the Hans, have.   Unless for legitimate and proportionate security demands, those freedoms and movements have to be curtained for a specific period of time. If China seeks to rule the world, then it needs to establish and maintain not just an economic and military legitimacy for doing so.  It also needs to establish and maintain a higher moral, social and judiciary legitimacy or order.  There is no or little point in humanity replacing the current failing social, military and economic order with a new order which seeks to turn humanity into little more than computer data and robots to be controlled by computer programmes.  Technological advancement needs to be led and guided by i

'What we recall of our experiences of the past, tends to be a factor of how they impacted on our senses at the time, the strength of our continuing attachment to those experiences.   And the extent to which we have succeeded in assimilating them into our subsequent experiences and move on with our lives.' But none of this would prevent Kazaliwa from making the conversion of seeing the world in mostly or primarily 'black and white', and developing or taking on and projecting a racist philosophy.  It is not clear when this transformation began. The trauma of his girlfriend's disloyalty and dramatic breakup of their relationship might have been a factor.  His increasing consumption of popular ~American and West Indian 'gangsta culture' might have been another. As has probably been his hatred of the police, 'the system', and his positioning of himself on the other side of 'the law', as it was. Whatever it was, by the time Kazaliwa spent his first

Which is why, to me, it seems much more likely that the 'human right which we should all aspire to have and be respected by the respective countries in which we live.  Are rights which are predicated on political, social and cultural prerogatives.  They are not divine and inalienable rights, because there is likely to be factors, whether people, inadequate power and resources, prevent us from exercising. Whether it is the 'right' to freedom of thought, or speech, to life, housing, food, water, to not being stateless, et al.   There is the problem of what should be done by others, if a given country, tribe, or ethnic group is depriving one of their citizens of group of citizens of their basic assumed rights. Such as is reported to be the case in China, with the Chinese government reportedly denying the Uighur people living in Xinjiang Province, of what I would characterise as their basic reasonable human rights.  Rights which are not, it would seem, codified into Chinese law