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Churchill’s funeral : a personal memory

I attended Churchill’s funeral and still have clear memories of it. My mother’s cousin and her aunt came over from Paris to pay their last respects. Every Friday my mother would shop at Ridley Road market and the king of the market was a kind man called Major Alf F. He had an obvious [...]

January 31, 2015 // 1 Comment

In the Apple Store

I belong to the generation that went from no knowledge to Word for Windows overnight and, like many a writer on the Rust, confused by it all. I accept that my p/a Polly can dance over the keyboard effortlessly producing documents, images etc. but when my six year old Godson can work the handset on [...]

January 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

A party for locals

Yesterday I gave a party for some 30 people I have met since moving to the South Coast some 9 months ago. Aside from reciprocating hospitality and cementing friendships, I had two other reasons for party giving. The first is that it’s a depressing time of the year and my late mother passed [...]

January 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Business predictions for 2015

There were three totemic events in business last year and not one was predicted by the so called experts – the collapse of the oil price, the meltdown of the rouble and the devastation at Tesco. So all those predictions, including mine and those others you  read, take with a large pinch of [...]

January 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

New Year at Hotel du Vin Brighton

It was Daphne Colthard who suggested I saw the New  Year in at the Hotel du Vin. I am not one for the revelries of a new year and would be quite happily tucked up in bed by 11 than  pay the high prices that restaurants charge for dinner on this night.  However I have my godson and his mother [...]

January 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Xmas Day

I was quite prepared for spending Xmas day on my own for all the sympathy. The religious significance of Xmas is long gone and replaced by a consumer frenzy and false family bonhomie. However at the last moment my brother expressed a wish to come to the South Coast and I was only too pleased to [...]

December 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Accident in Glasgow: an explanation

Two years ago almost exactly to the day, I was staying in a hotel near Maidenhead with one of my favourite poppets. I was chatting from the bath when I began to cough and mid-sentence passed out. Had my friend been less astute I would not be writing this. Next thing I knew I had the rather [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

A good doctor

Yesterday I met with a private doctor locally I was recommended. I have a GP but on the two occasions I visited the surgery I had to wait over 45 minutes.. Recommendation is a powerful resource but in checking up on the doctor personally I was heartened that he studied and qualified at the [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Commercial cynicism

Yesterday I had lunch with an old school friend who was both at my prep and public school who has been something of a success in Internet commerce, so much so that he has written a book about it, Net Profit. Conversation turned to the state  of the markets that have been having a disastrous time. [...]

December 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

A Meeting of Old Friends

Yesterday I had lunch with two old friends , a lunch that  seems to have taken place since time immemoriam. After various venues we settled on the Guinea Grill as one a keen trencherman and imbiber said it had a fine wine list . The Guinea Grill has been going for years- like us. It’s rather [...]

December 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

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