Kate SmartDeath Brek-sitI was enjoying a fully-cooked Brek-sit of bacon, Cumberland sausage, black pudding, fruit pudding, scrambled egg and fried bread and…3 min read·Jan 19, 2019----
Kate SmartThoughts on Coleridge’s Frost at Midnight.Making time for Abstruser Musings.2 min read·Oct 8, 2017----
Kate SmartWe Don’t Like YurtsMay Day has come and gone, with its fires and sacrifices and such-like, and we’re still here. Another year whizzes by, like a juggernaut…4 min read·Oct 8, 2017----
Kate SmartNight VisionLast winter my television broke down. I couldn’t afford another, so instead I’d sit at my window at night with the light off, with a hot…3 min read·Jul 25, 2017----
Kate SmartHave we reached ‘peak internet’?I use the internet all the time. I live on a low income in a quiet part of the world and it allows me to see what goes on elsewhere, with…5 min read·Jul 14, 2017----
Kate SmartRemember when….we had privacyRemember before the internet — when we had ‘privacy’? When we had — for want of a better word — ‘boundaries’? Before emoticons and DMs and…3 min read·May 29, 2017----
Kate SmartReflections on a Splintered WorldThe world has changed a lot during my lifetime and especially so over the last ten or fifteen years. Obvious, I know. I’m just trying to…5 min read·May 24, 2017----
Kate SmartThoughts as I get older.One of the major surprises about getting older is the effect of the continuous process of adjustment of memory. Your perception of past…4 min read·Apr 19, 2017----