May 2026 Do we all know the nursery rhyme about ‘the cow jumped over the moon’? Did the cow really jump over the moon? Absolutely not – cows can’t jump. And they certainly can’t jump over the moon. Haha, impossible ‘The little dog laughed to see such sport.’ Well, little dogs yap, but they don’t laugh. And jumping over the moon doesn’t sound like a sport!? ‘The dish ran away with the spoon’ Dishes can’t run. Spoons can’t run. So … all rubbish, stop misleading and

Mungo does not approve of the new manager. He looks askance at her: her fashionable outfit curated to be the perfect combo of casual and professional, her solicitous insistence on endless woke ideologies, her damned salads for lunch. Damned jumped-up housewife. He’s not sure how anyone let her out of the kitchen. Mungo stands musing on the woes and injustices of a world that could allow such outrages. ‘Have you finished with this?’ A voice cones from behind him. He starts

Jump through those hoops young man / young woman. Once you start you never stop It begins when you are in school Where they teach you to cop… It sweet. Those hoops you jump through you know Simply become more convoluted... They actually get smaller and smaller Till they wrap around your neck… so it is reputed. Jump this way… Jump that way Think this way… Think that way Truth is what we say it is not? So it is claimed by ‘they who must be obeyed’ Till a quick Google se

The ski resort has a few spots it calls ‘terrain parks’. These are places where there is ‘furniture’ for doing stunts and jumps. More recently, they have introduced mini beginner terrain parks along the side of several runs. These are set so they people who want to learn to jump by starting small can turn off from the main run, do one or two small jumps and return to the main run. I’ve been trying to get Max to follow me in to these. One of these mini beginner jumps h

Crouching low he looks around pensively, not blinking, just staring through the reeds. He shivers slightly in anticipation, excitement and fear. Everyone else can do this; every one of his dozens of brothers and sisters have been merrily, actively springing around for weeks now. He shuffles, re-balances, squats again, raises his little bottom up, sits down, shuffles, squats, re-balances, raises his bottom again, shuffles, then sits down again. ‘I can do this. It’s easy,