Bailey Jones's Journal

The news has been bad: ninety-odd people killed by a right wing lunatic in Norway and the death of Amy Winehouse. My friend Pat also died th...

I once heard, or more probably read, a metaphor that described life as being measured out in teaspoons. Perhaps a person's life that ca...

Earlier this week, I cried, if not buckets, than enough to fill half a tea cup watching the film adaptation of Kazuo Isiguro's 'Neve...

Yesterday I said good bye to a former colleague. Kath Fry, who on retiring from teaching maths at the college in 2010, discovered she had lu...

In my last random rambling I mentioned the idea of making reparation for errors of the past. Actually, it's not that easy to do. Asking ...

L.P. Hartley famously said the 'the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.' It's not difficult to see what...

A lovely, lazy time with family, the odd walk and no work. Coming home via London, we only saw dribs and drabs of the wedding crowd but we w...