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Looking forward to his retirement in 2015, Arthur has written poetry since childhood and regularly takes part in poetry workshops and ‘open mike’ evenings. More Posts

Going back and actually enjoying it

Last night, in keeping with my normal television-choice routine, I channel-hopped as far as BBC4 in a desperate attempt to find something worth watching and thereby came across The Story of the 1986 Commonwealth Games on BBC4. [Here I must confess that I am about to comment upon an hour-long [...]

August 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Owning up

A month ago I took a decision of principle that, whilst acknowledging that it was inevitable I would be exposed to occasional media coverage of the Commonwealth Games from Glasgow, I would make a point of neither seeking it out nor setting my schedule by it. In practice, of course, that laudable [...]

July 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Enough is enough

One of the few plusses of sliding beyond a certain age is that, whatever your views, they tend to become more strident and either black or, alternatively, white. I find that my youthful wishy-washy liberal desire to see all sides of every argument has tended to recede into the rear-view mirror as I [...]

July 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

That’s it – I’ll get me coat

The advance of female equality and emancipation knows no bounds – and not always in a good way. We have all experienced the phenomenon of enjoying too much of a good thing. For example, if you were an ice cream fan and suddenly got locked in an ice cream shop overnight, within two or three [...]

July 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Life worth living

My eighty-eight year old father has a slight tendency to repeat himself, for which he gets teased, but two of his favourite sayings (“Growing old is not for the faint-hearted” and “If there are any advantages to getting old, I’ve yet to discover them”) do not detract from his still-lively [...]

June 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

A memorable experience

Do stop me if I’ve told you this one before! Yesterday, as I was tidying up the sitting room, in a cabinet – amongst my CD collection – I came across a battered old cassette album of operatic arias sung by the Bulgarian dramatic soprano Ghena Dimitrova (1941-2005). I had no means of [...]

June 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all this

And now for something from the ‘We’re All Going To Hell In A Handcart’ department … A piece by George Monbiot that appears today on the website of THE [...]

May 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Recipe for a long life

According to reports in the media, the latest edition of the publication Psychological Science sets out the results of a survey conducted by researchers at Carleton University in Canada demonstrating that – at any stage of your life – having a purpose in life is a good strategy for having a [...]

May 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Coming up on the rails

Much is made these days of the theme that modern youngsters are turned off books by the eternal march of new technology. We are told that social media, Twitter, Facebook, computer games and the fast-moving, busy, nature of life today have resulted in people being able to relate to the world only in [...]

May 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Home truths

I think I’ve discovered the reason for my recent lack of success with the opposite sex, courtesy of an article featuring on the website of the Daily Mail this morning – see here – YOU HAVE JUST 12 MINUTES TO IMPRESS ON A DATE When I reached the bottom of the page, there was a list of the top [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

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