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Hold the phone!

Call the quack. I’m reporting myself for a ginormous ‘senior moment’ overnight and am beginning to feel that those snivelling turncoats and junior family members who have been chipping away at my confidence and sanity by regularly telling me I need to go for a cognitive [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

There comes a time

As an oldie myself, I could not help sympathising with actor Tom Cruise four or five days ago when garish media stories went viral about a stunt that went wrong whilst he was filming a roof top chase sequence for the movie Mission: Impossible 6. I should add here that I don’t get out much these [...]

August 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

A bit of a find

Yesterday I teamed up with a brother for a military-style mission to take our 91 year old father to a Harley Street consultation in central London. My brother did the ‘pick up’ by travelling to the coast and driving said parent to my place in south London, after which my contribution would be [...]

August 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting used to it

On Saturday I read an excellent review of Robert McCrum’s new book Every Third Thought by Robert Lewis – one of my favourite book critics – in the Review section of The Times newspaper. Rather like the Literary Review, which I also buy every month, I regard the newspaper weekend [...]

August 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

“Wait for the number 3!”

Please pardon me for bothering you if this is ‘old hat’ because you’ve seen it previously – possibly many times – but yesterday I was shown for the first time a video of a dog who has been trained follow commands to an extraordinary degree. What was particularly [...]

July 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

A blockbuster arrives

The reviews for the movie Dunkirk which is released in Britain this Friday (21st July) – written, co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan – are currently cascading across the newspaper pages, television and radio outlets and all across social media presumably to the delight of all [...]

July 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

A case of pulling out the pin and getting out of here …

Okay, I’m coming out of the woods with my hands up. I’m male and my ‘topic de jour’ is the vexed one of women in sport. Last night, by complete chance since my gaff had been invaded by an electrician who has taken the best of two months to repair the non-working lights system in my front [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Oh for a quiet life

One of the annoying things I find about modern life – well, mine anyway – is that you get so little time to yourself. I had fondly imagined that by the time I reached my mid-sixties I’d be living in a perfect situation in which, with me bothering nobody and nobody bothering me, I could do [...]

July 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

A small comfort perhaps, but some things never change

Here’s a modern tale. About two months ago I decided to do something about the lights in the front room of my flat. I had two issues with them: One of the lights in one of the two-knocked-through-together-now-open-plan room(s) was not working at all, and – in the other former room – [...]

June 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

A chance encounter

It so happened yesterday that I was due to have lunch in an Italian restaurant on Grafton Way close to Warren Street Tube station. On my way I emerged into the sunlight at Tottenham Court Road Tube station and, for no other reason that I had some time to spare, decided – instead of walking [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

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