How do you celebrate holidays? It is tough when every day is a holiday. How do I remember how lucky I am and not take my good fortune for granted. After all, “familiarity breeds contempt”, is the wise saying. I start every day by asking, what needs to be done, not just for me, butContinue reading “When every day is a holiday.”
Category Archives: Eva La Pensée – Hanse History
Honesty is best.
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? My dad never told my mum how much he earned. This always created mistrust and friction. Why did he do it? All part of his power game. When he discovered I shared a bank account with my wife, he warned me of my folly. IContinue reading “Honesty is best.”
Learn to say ‘no!’
What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? Say it every time someone wants you to do something that they present, as being for your benefit, but actually is for theirs. Examples. The extra beer you don’t want to drink, or helping you don’t want to eat, or film that goes onContinue reading “Learn to say ‘no!’”
Open All Night
Spillwords.com presents: Open All Night, flash fiction by Clive La Pensée, who started writing on the history of beer and became a world … Source: Open All Night
Laborare est orare
Words are my business, and then there is writers’ block. If nothing appears interesting and grabs my attention, how should it interest someone else. Well, I had the block big time and then I walked down a street in Liverpool that has a Catholic Primary School – not uncommon in Liverpool – and there wasContinue reading “Laborare est orare”
Today’s actions are tomorrow’s outcomes
Do you believe in fate/destiny? Whatever I do today, will determine tomorrow. If I go to bed early, it will influence when I get up tomorrow, which will influence my day – my destiny. On this basis, history must be predetermined. A kidnap in Israel has sealed the fate of 30000 dead and millions displacedContinue reading “Today’s actions are tomorrow’s outcomes”
Funny man
She said, ‘I don’t have to be afraid anymore’. They thought that only at the end of life, did he suffer for the pain he caused. That was not true. He suffered life-long anguish and perhaps his grief was the real reason for the bellicose outbursts, which reflected his inability to take responsibility for theContinue reading “Funny man”
History foibles
What major historical events do you remember? Coronation of Elizabeth 2. It rained, I was as bored as a five year old could be. Ugh. JFK. I was on my way to the Fairfield Halls to see some nonsense plays by Ionesco. How apt. We still don’t know the truth. 6 day war. I rememberContinue reading “History foibles”
Joseph Green and Robert Motherby – Hull Merchants and Kant’s Philosophy
An account of Yorkshire’s medieval trade links with the Baltic. They created a lasting network, not only for businesses and trade, but also for cross-cultural cooperation.The story begins in former German city of Königsberg now called Kaliningrad and is part of the Russian Federation. This is an intriguing account how Yorkshire’s medieval trade links withContinue reading “Joseph Green and Robert Motherby – Hull Merchants and Kant’s Philosophy”
Start slowly and let the chaos linger.
The day has come to empty the bottom of the house, and thus facilitate the floorboard removal. More boards are wobbling and the kitchen tiles cracking at an unprecedented rate. The little munchers have done their worst. Rentokil assure me the munchers are dead. I’m sure they are right, but the floorboards are so weakenedContinue reading “Start slowly and let the chaos linger.”
Clive La Pensée 