Blog – Colin Anderson

Mortality & Home

I was born in Newton Abbot hospital and I was reminded this morning of a thought from some years ago about wanting to live there. Not the hospital, but a flat that my old maternity ward was converted into. Does that seem strange?

Gas, Lies & Jolly Japes

These days it feels like every day is All Fool’s Day, as so many people are fooled by preposterous but strangely believable lies. Today I am celebrating, but in a very low-key manner.

The Fire Brigade, clay mines & a Volkswagen Beetle: what is the connection?

I recently came across a photograph I took in 1977 of a fire appliance, which immediately triggered memories of Newton Abbot Fire Brigade, the nearby clay mines – and why my father owned a Volkswagen Beetle. There was a powerful link between these seemingly disparate elements.

Nervous Sleep!

This morning I have dry, heavy, sore eyes – a symptom common in my working life and which I attributed to getting up unnaturally – when a clock said so rather than when my body. I am glad those days are over, but every now and again they return…

Apps – Rent or Buy?

After returning this morning from a walk I found myself thinking about something that has been nagging me for a long time: do I take the plunge and buy software to replace what I have been using for 20 years, in order to save the monthly subscription?

Distracted Politicians?

What if… we followed the science and started building homes in 2000 that would provide a healthy and comfortable environment for the end of the 21st. century? Politicians failed to act – and continue to do so. They are all too easily distracted from science, facts, knowledge and evidence by the super-rich.