Everything changes.  The top of Mount Everest was once on the seabed.  You could have paddled barefoot on its summit without getting frostbite.  Sharks would be a different matter.

A window cleaner taking his first tentative steps on the career ladder has one of those rare jobs where you can rise rapidly, without your father owning the business.  Or the ladder.  Should you fall by the wayside, you can climb back up and start again.

Does a sitting duck actually remain in one place, even during the hunting season, when it should really be prepared to duck and dive?  Unless it's a lame duck.  

Hats were commonplace before 3000 BC.  One of the earliest known hats was worn by a Bronze Age man called Otzi - was his name written inside his hat? 

Thanks to Hollywood and John Grisham, most of us now know what a 'rainmaker' is, which is to say a person who brings prestige or business to an organisation through their contacts and past associations.

There has been plenty of news and political issues about immigration. There have been thousands of temporary African workers in our farms, some living in poor conditions, but working to enable their families to get an own home and means to start their own business.

Judges hope juries will keep their deliberations short, and guilty people hope judges will hand down short sentences.  We all live in such a hectic 24-hours-a-day world that most of us paradoxically wish there were more hours in the day.

Our modern society likes to proclaim itself to be multicultural and secular, and the direction seems to be a future without old-fashioned religious ballast where science is the tool for constant progress and prosperity, happiness for everything and everyone.