Category Archives: Modern life

Blog of modern life

The Firefly

By Michael Skywood Clifford It's a beautiful late afternoon and here I am in this wine bar/ pub, an alarming mishmash of style. It may be sunny outside [..]

Culture, style and the arts, Modern life, Reviews

Pound shops

by Michael Clifford I remember in my early years turning to the back of the Exchange and Mart trade magazine and looking at the bankrupt stocks listed. This [..]

Modern life

The pleasure of summer, wifi and country pubs for a writer

A few weeks ago I – on a whim as always – bought a very tiny laptop, a notebook in fact. (I have since worked out it is [..]

Modern life

A ramble on drugs…

By Michael Skywood Clifford.   Imagine a world of utter hedonism: feeling high all the time; coked up, MDMA-ed up; at parties we take Ecstasy and Ketamine; and [..]

Modern life, Religious and philosophical

On euthanasia and assisted suicide

By Michael Skywood Clifford.   It is interesting how opposite the views of most men and women are on euthanasia. Most women I know support it. They accept [..]

Modern life, Religious and philosophical

Newspapers anyone?

By Michael Skywood Clifford. There is now an obvious realisation that most Western news outputs are spinning the truth. We have all – globally – suspected for decades [..]

Modern life, Political

The Plough in Worcester

By Michael Skywood Clifford. One of the more interesting pubs in Worcester for the serious ale drinker is 'The Plough', situated on the corner of Fish Street in [..]

Modern life, Reviews

On ambition

By Michael Skywood Clifford. I suggest obsessive ambition comes from neurosis. It is passed on by parent to its children and grandchildren. The most ambitious people can be [..]

Modern life, Religious and philosophical

The Dragon Inn in Worcester

By Michael Skywood Clifford. The Dragon is on the edge of Worcester city centre, situated on the 51 The Tything, Worcester, which is slightly north of Foregate Station. It is [..]

Modern life, Reviews