Cry the Beloved Children

Cry the Beloved Children

Stevie Smith, the twentieth century English poet (not the current Australian batter), was most well known for her poem entitled ‘Not Waving but Drowning’, in which she described how a crowd watched a man who “always loved larking” struggling and drowning in the sea,...
They Kill Us for Their Sport

They Kill Us for Their Sport

William Shakespeare loved sport. Alright, granted, we may not have much evidence of that but he would have understood it just as he clearly understood life then, in his time. And just as his writings are still as relevant and relatable to life now, so they provide...
Kids First

Kids First

First, we had the Harlem Globetrotters, the American exhibition basketball team. In more recent years (since 2016), in case we were not aware previously, we have been introduced to the Savannah Bananas, an American exhibition baseball team from the state of Georgia...
We Are Not Entitled

We Are Not Entitled

“Good day, this is Tim from Zim”. Regular readers of these articles will know that; the name appears at the bottom of the article each week. After all (or perhaps that should read, before all), Tim Middleton is simply the name given to me by my parents many moons ago....
We Are Engaged!

We Are Engaged!

It has become a massive exercise in recent years for men to devise enormously creative ways to propose to their intended future wife, be it in a romantic setting on a beach with the sun setting and the waves gently lapping, or on the top of a mountain or in a...