Fairness. The carrot: to eat of, or beat with…

It is only fair to say that I’ve got a cold and so what follows is a grunge.

For me, fairness has to do with whether I feel effective or ineffective at any one time.  And Enthusiasm seems to be an important element in the matter.  I think it was the Scottish philosopher, Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that when a man is enthusiastic about something he has no need of an armchair.  The world is a rough old place.  If I am hurt in any way and cannot do anything practical to improve matters I feel ineffective.  The Government might think about helping us all to feel effective, what ever our circumstances – I am wary about giving us more and more choices, because to be inundated by choice comes perilously near to dividing our minds - to rule, I wonder?

 My picture of a donkey lashed by a carrot-whip says something about the country's present plight, something that I find hard to put into words - atchoo!

complaints - the law is an ass

The director inocently calls for the character of that name

I do wonder at the sense of the general principal of the new law that, to me, looks as though bosses will have to have a lawyer at his/her side at every minute of the working day just in case an 'unacceptible' word slips out. 

Theatre rehearsals are peppered with moments when the creative spirit breaks loose and words are said in haste - words, because they are often very witty are readily repeated. An actor manager in the Park outdoor theatre in London, finding an actress still pulling on a stocking when she was meant to be on stage, snapped, ‘it’s no good looking up your entrance now, dahling, you’ve missed it!’ I remember it sped round theatre land within minutes of it having been said some 60 or more years ago. If heard now think what might result if overheard by an employee of an histrionic sensibility and assertively litigious frame of mind! And its not only in the theatre that you find such people...