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Paris

We travelled by Eurostar an experience I found greatly preferable to airplanes. Modern airports are so stressful, you are in the air for less than an hour and still have the journey from the airport to the city centre of Paris.  On the Eurostar the seats are comfy, the carriage service efficient, [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Tale of Two Cities.

Today I’m travelling to Paris for an antiques fair at the Grand Palais. Such is the state of Southern Fail that whilst logistically feasible to travel from the south to St Pancras International directly by the Capital Connect Line it is too risky to make the journey in one day by walking the [...]

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drive he said

When ex-premier Jim Callaghan retired from office he was asked what he would miss the most and he said a driver. It’s truly one of life’s great luxuries to be collected and delivered door to door avoiding all the stress of driving and other means of transport. A luxury has become a [...]

September 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Funeral for a friend’ s mother

Yesterday I went to the cremation and reception afterwards of the mother of a close friend of mine. I doubt if  I met her 10 times in her life, never visited her home, nor her mine but  that was not the point . It was the correct thing to do to pay my last respects and to be there for my friend. [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

The i360 Watchtower

Brighton is never a city to sit on its laurels or its backside. The electric railway of Magnus Volk, still running from the pier to the Marina, is the oldest such railway in the world; it is the only coastal city with its own Palace the  Royal Pavilion. It has the quaint Lanes full of antiques [...]

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Equestrian gold: expert view

Yesterday afternoon was my admin session with Polly. She was held up at the dentist and I started to watch the equestrian event knowing she would want to watch this. I was soon absorbed and when she arrived my enjoyment was enhanced by her expert knowledge of the sport. Dressed in smart livery, the [...]

August 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Buying a pup

Yesterday I was called by the trainer of my greyhound to say that after a couple of months of treatment and rest for a tendon injury he was now irretrievably lame. He would never run again. For sometime I thought I had in every sense bought a pup. I never thought that I had acquired a dog that [...]

August 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

In search of things past

My late mother used to have a saying that if you are too nostalgic about the past you mortgage your future. I’ve seen in life that one of the characteristics of a positive person is that he/she deletes the past and lives for the moment or the future. Thus it was then with a certain [...]

August 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

The barbecue

Last night the weather was sufficiently clement to have a barbecue. The barbecue is strange institution as the male of the species takes responsibility for the cooking though, as often as not, the woman prepares the food, the salads and clears it all away. I have been to too many barbecues where I [...]

July 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Southern Discomfort

Most readers, I suspect, know that the Southern railway service is chaotic, less that the Ministry of Transport effectively has taken over the service and plays Govia the franchise holder a management fee. The previous rail minister Claire Perry has resigned. No reason was given but a friend said [...]

July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

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