Imagine Carl, just imagine

I took a call from my Best Man in 1976, Carl Olsen, on the evening of my 68th birthday.It’s a long standing tradition.The fact Carl now lives next to the beach in New South Wales, Australia simply adds to the fun . It was midnight there, but this time he rang from a hospital bed.His

Disturbed Part One

Are one in four of us fruitcakes? Mental illness is more common than you’d think.1 in 4 people in the UK experience it every year and research shows that more than half the population will suffer some form of mental illness during their lifetime.When it happens to a celebrity the effects are magnified, partly because

Imagine there’s no heaven…

For me this song is the most evocative song ever written.It doesn’t believe in pie in the sky.When I surfed YouTube today I came across a comment damning it as communist propaganda. The comment argued that one has to believe in “possessions” as the bedrock of a stable capitalist economy. Well that’s one view, but long