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Reunion meal

Yesterday I travelled into central London for lunch with a pal and some of his mates, all of them alumni of the same school. There was a certain novelty to the expedition because I’m now about a decade past the time I last commuted into the metropolis and it was fascinating – if you see what I [...]

January 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

A new (old) business idea

Whilst we await President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in about ten days or so’s time (and, on current form, presumably the end of human civilisation as we know it about a week later), it occurred to me that we ought to be sharing some of our hopes and fears for 2017. For the past few [...]

January 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

The purpose of it all

Please pardon the delay in me addressing this media story, but I was listening to Dotun Adebayo’s Up All Night programme on Radio Five Live in the early hours of this morning when I heard a segment on new research from the United States of America apparently demonstrating that sex just gets [...]

December 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Christmas fun

Yesterday we popped across London to join a Christmas Day gathering that became one of the most enjoyable of its kind I can recall in recent times. As a group we have a had a number of family health issues in the past twelve months – and also a wedding – and yet the schedule unfolded in as [...]

December 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

They didn’t tell me it rains in Palma!

My Friday in Palma constituted what the journos would describe as a ‘slow news day’. For most of the daylight hours it was drizzling and then, from about 5.00pm, the mist rolled in and it really began to rain quite hard. Not something one normally associates with Mallorca because most of us [...]

December 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ba Humbug!

Today my eye was drawn to a brief piece on the website of the Daily Mail about a documentary shortly to be aired on RTE called The Secret Of The Universe. It tells the story of the death of Peter O’Neill, apparently styled the naked hermit of Wicklow – see here – DAILY MAIL I’m not sure I [...]

December 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it comes to this

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I wake up in the night and go on the newspaper websites to catch up with what’s happening and wish I hadn’t bothered. A lady could get depressed reading the doom-mongering stuff being put about in the media. Never mind Brexit, Donald Trump, Syria, [...]

December 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

The secret of male attractiveness

Everyone knows the allegedly true story – recounted by the man himself on a TV chat show, if my memory serves – of the time that a middle-aged male hotel employee brought some element of room service up to footballer George Best’s room and, surveying the evidence of what had plainly been an [...]

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A meeting at the coast

For a variety of reasons which need not concern us here my November has been unusually hectic. As a break from everything else that is going on, yesterday I drove to the coast for a family meeting coinciding with the arrival of my father’s new live-in carer – in actual fact, one specifically [...]

November 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hartsbourne

I have always been fascinated by great houses. It’s not so much the architecture and grounds but those that lived and stayed in them. Melanie Gay, knowing that I always want to learn more about places I have visited or intend to, recommended me a book called the Riviera Set by Mary Lovell. I [...]

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

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