The Persistence of Time or I should have built a 'retrospectascope'

 

'When I had a fringe Salvador' - digital art by George Roberts October 2025

'Growing up'

I had no sibling, sister or brother

So I listened to Dad and Mother

 

But one day I realised

What they said was

Utter Bollocks!

 

I was often told at school

Not to play the bloody fool

 

But one day I realised

What they said was

Management Bollocks!

 

Grandees of Commerce and State

Agree it’s a sad but true fact of fate

That you need loads of losers

To make just a few big winners

 

But one day I realised

What they said was

Economic Bollocks!

Schrödinger's cat

 

Schrödinger's cat - digital art, George Roberts October 2025

Quantum physics is all very well but no one explains why Erwin Schrödinger' chose a cat to put in that box. He could have secreted a miniature Schnauzer or an okapi or even a badger in a sealed box but instead opted for a domestic cat. Can animals only exist in multiple states in boxes or would a tied sack have sufficed for this particular mind experiment?  

There is no accounting for taste in pet husbandry and packaging at the Planck scale!

Tartiflette

 

You will never regret 

Eating Tartiflette 

Although you may feel queezie 

Because it's all so cheesy