• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
Walking Commentary

Walking Commentary

Manchester to Rome 2022

  • ManRom22
  • Latest Comments
  • Archives

cigarettes

On Coffee and untold stories

April 4, 2020 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

Coffee is an acquired taste. I read an online article somewhere a couple of years ago that reported on research that drew several conclusions, one of which was that the tolerance of coffee flavour needed some brain training. We accept that it is bitter because we have learned to anticipate the stimulation it will provide.

on coffee and a double rainbow in Anelo
Double Rainbow Añelo 1995

I like my coffee. I learned to really like it when I was working in Argentina with GQ from Colombia. He demonstrated that coffee doesn’t have to be bitter. But it was a slow learning.

[Read more…] about On Coffee and untold stories

Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: cigarettes, coffee, computing, geophysics, jogging, photos, popular, travel

Look On The Bright Side

March 20, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

20 Mar 2020 – 10:36 GMT – 7°C Mostly Cloudy – Co. Dublin, Ireland

Always liked the idea of travel, the wonderment of it. Little intrigues in stories recounted by friends who had travelled widely. Not stories of cruise ships or ski chalets or student binges. I was more interested in stories of life in extremis.

Writer Gerry Hanley told me about the village elder missing the tip of his nose. Elder was shot through a thicket in the crossfire between Japanese and British troops in Burma. The thicket was big enough to have hidden an entire village. The elder was the only casualty despite none of the troops realising there were several hundred people between their muzzles.

[Read more…] about Look On The Bright Side

Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: alexander kielland, biafra, burma, cigarettes, dog, gerry hanley, monty python, patagonia, photo, travel

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe


Recent Comments

  • Lia Mills on Gallery: 25 2020 moments
  • Simon Robinson on Yachts, Leaks and Bacteria
  • Felicity McCartan on Yachts, Leaks and Bacteria
  • Felicity Mc on Celebrate Minor Mundanity
  • Liz on Yachts, Leaks and Bacteria

Categories

  • Anchoritism
  • Fake Memoir
  • ManRom2021
  • Uncategorized

Tags

ahmet altan albert einstein astronomy bbc birds bird watching booklink brian greene burma cancer colum mccann computing Covid-19 dog dun laoghaire fabhappy fitbit flowers food gardening geology geophysics hans rosling inequality irish times lia mills london movies nobel prize pandemic PEN international photo photography photos poetry popular rugby sahara simonscarves the guardian travel tv ungrievable volcano walking

Recent Posts

  • Where Is The Edge?
  • Charting Phrenology
  • Not Just Another Book
  • Full Circles
  • Strange Memory Links

Archives

  • January 2021 (18)
  • December 2020 (31)
  • November 2020 (30)
  • October 2020 (31)
  • September 2020 (30)
  • August 2020 (31)
  • July 2020 (31)
  • June 2020 (30)
  • May 2020 (31)
  • April 2020 (30)
  • March 2020 (31)

Footer

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • ManRom22
  • Latest Comments
  • Archives

Subscribe


Copyright © 2021 · Revolution Pro on Genesis Framework