Diary of a Dissenter: A Week From My Window

'And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.’ — Revelation 6:8

Dark Horse, Pale Horse, Zebra?

FRIDAY

Passing a local fish restaurant on my way homewards after my constitutional, I overhear a telling exchange-of-our-times between staff of the restaurant and a woman passing the way who seems suddenly to get an urge for a takeaway bowl of chowder. It is about 11.45am, and a female staff member, of foreign extraction, is…