I love reading. Books are vessels that can inform, enlighten, delight, confuse and embolden. Reading is a beautiful gift, and words can form powerful, lasting memories. A good story can catapult us…

This is a good question, and a slightly tough one for me to answer. There are various points where I might feel physically tired, but there's also psychological exhaustion too. Sometimes the two meet in the middle, for added fatigue. At the moment, I am at my most tired in the mornings. Early starts, combined with darker mornings, with the prospect of long days, leaves me feeling particularly drained.

It feels strangely magical that this Muse should fall upon one of the most spectacular non-events in British history - Guy Fawkes Night. Welcome back everyone. A House of Plague A couple of weeks ago, both my wife and daughter came down with an horrendous cold. In fact, at first the worry was my daughter - who was patient zero in this instance - might have caught covid.

Owing in no small part to the unwarranted and thoroughly disproportionate coverage they get from Britain's mainstream media, Nigel Farage's Reform Party is doing well in the polls. Quite why such a small party in terms of MPs is getting so much more attention than say, the Green Party (which has a similar presence in Parliament) is beyond me, but it certainly seems someone somewhere is playing favourites.

Yesterday two men boarded a train at Peterborough, about an hour north of London. Shortly after getting on, they began to attack passengers with knives. Nine people were hospitalised, and as of the time of writing this, two remain in a life-threatening condition. The two attackers have both been arrested, and are currently in police custody. The police have been quick to downplay the suggestion that this was some form of terrorist attack.

Throughout the history of Meerkat Musings I have written of my dreams. There have been some epic nocturnal adventures, including zombie apocalypse dreams, creepy clown dreams, sweeping fantasy dreams, intense sci-fi dreams, emotional dreams, and... well, lets call them romantic dreams. There are many notions as to what dreams mean. Some people consider them windows to the soul. Others see them as the brain's way of sifting through the events and experiences of any given day, though quite what compels…