Yes, a very big welcome to you.

This site is devoted to all sorts of stuff, from the general nature of things to politics to astrology to, probably, lizards, cattle, or onions.

My late grandmother seldom mentioned lizards, but she always talked about the price of onions or cabbage or meat (which is directly linked to cattle).  Indeed, it was one of her main pursuits of interest and study for much of her rather long and at times eccentric life. 

And thus, although such things appear to be irrelevant, we cannot ignore them.

I dare say that many of the ideas given on this site will change as we pass along the tiled halls of time.  I say this because it is my experience that very rarely is anything true.  In fact, if it is, it generally can't be.  But it can be for a bit.

And thus we spin on the carousel of paradox.

Nevertheless, the pursuit of answers and questions and excellence are vital to healthy living and, more importantly, humour.  Yes, we must laugh, not least because, as far as I am concerned, I am very far from excellence.

In fact, all those who I found to be very close to excellence, such as Milton or Shakespeare or Newton or Waugh or the captain of my prep school football team or a Henley winner were always found to be terribly flawed.

And so, we cannot take ourselves too seriously. 

A truth? 

Perhaps. 

For now it is.

We have for too long been in the doldrums of political correctness, Malvolian puritanism and other such dreary horrors that we can quite rightly claim the truth that taking ourselves too seriously can lead us down too many blind alleys.

But enough for now.  Please enjoy this developing site, which should bring all sorts of joys and challenges and ideas and things.

Oh, and one last thing. 

You will find that my writing and views can sometimes be a touch general, and occasionally, by accident, some of my facts may be slightly wrong. 

This does not mean that I have any disrespect for facts.  Indeed, I go out of my way to make my work as accurate as possible, but we must make choices as to how much time we allocate to different aspects of what we do.  And I choose to commit as much of my time as is reasonably possible to the very important spirit of what I have to say.  This is, after all, what makes doing what I do so enjoyable for me.

Hence, the purpose of my work is not to deliver fact sheets or precision, not least because such things are not always correct anyway.  It is instead to bring a general set of ideas, a new feel for things.  And you can only deliver such things with occasional generalisations or the odd incorrect facts, otherwise you would get bogged down. 

And you don't want that, not least because it would be like walking along with a furrowed brow, your eyes locked onto your feet, when there is a splendid sunrise to behold in the distance. 

Anyway, faulted at times as it may be, please do enjoy this site as much as you can, and get in touch with your own comments.  I would be very pleased to hear from you. 

Best wishes, David Cammegh