Articles by Robert Tickler

I have made the decision that after 45 years of driving to hang up my car keys. These days I only do 1000 miles annually and its always been at the front of my mind not to replace my ageing Volvo. Three incidents in the last fortnight hastened my decision: 1) my tyre burst fortunately close to my [...]

Yesterday I spent an unsuccessful hour in a mobile shop I patronise trying unsuccessfully to sort out why the wifi on my iPad does not function. The problem seems to be yet another frustrating dead end loop. To get it to work I needed to download an IOS upgrade but could not do so as I had no wifi. [...]

Yesterday i was invited to a lunch for benefactors at my old Cambridge college, Magdalene. I have been an irregular visitor since I left in 1975 . The sad passing of my best friend there in January would inevitably tinge any such visit wth sadness but it was not a reunion as the benefactors were [...]

Yesterday I received the good news that my kidney stone has passed. Over my five and sixty years I get a stone roughly every 10 years and it’s intensely painful. A calcified stone forms in the ureter, blocks the bladder which sets off a acute pain. At my last appointment last week, the [...]

Yesterday I put some trousers – on which I had spilled something in the washing machine – without realising my mobile was in the back pocket. On hearing a suspicious clunking noise and being unable to locate it, I put 2 and 2 together. Fortunately it was still in the back pocket, there [...]

Yesterday on a gloriously sunny day when the temperature reached 21 degrees we made a long walk on the Prom to an apartment block well past the Negresco. The reason for this is that sadly the flat we have rented is going to be sold and if we are to revisit Nice we must relocate. A balcony is an [...]