1...Writing and publishing my poetry.

2...News and current affairs.

3...Languages of the world.

4...Military history and geopolitics

5...TV and films.

6...Theatre and the arts.

7...Watching sport.

GRAVITY

In a crazy world
It takes less time
For the minute hand
To travel from the hour
To half-past
Than it takes for it
To travel from half-past
Back up to the hour.

Yesterday, Hussein Osman (also known as Hamdi Izaak), an Islamic terrorist was extradited from Italy to London. Although we all know who he is and what he looks like, the media have been banned from showing his face. Why is this so? I know under English law there's the concept of 'sub judice', but that's just a means of censorship.

Because of this, there's not much democracy in this country but some of the legal cover-ups in the past have been laughable and pathetic...and even Chairman Blair can't censor the internet, can he?

Finally, why do so many Arabs/Muslims have two or three alternative names? It immediately makes me supicious of their motives and behaviour.

MORE OR LESS

On Ilkley Moor
Hatless, careless
We stood in the centre
Of the stone circle
At the summit.

It was a beautiful day;
I commented that
We could see most
Of the West Riding from there;
My friend agreed.

Seconds became minutes, became degrees,
Another hiker diverted
From the main path
And approached,
Touched each of the stones
In turn, then continued
On his way, without saying a word.

We did the same, my friend and I
Just for the sake of it
...You never know just who
Could have been watching.