Articles by Sy Pocklington

It’s one or the other

It’s no secret that contributors this particular media organ tend to reflect, describe or report upon events and occurrences – if not modern life itself – from the perspective of people who are rather older than “that the average bear” (as Yogi Bear might have said, not that many [...]

May 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Card troubles

It’s a rare occasion when one makes the BBC 6 O’ Clock television news, as I did last night. Or think I may have done. Here’s a link to the report concerned – as covered on the website of the – DAILY MAIL Yesterday late morning, as is my fate on a Friday, I was sent out to purchase the [...]

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

The delicate art of making a fuss

It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and, since I have something of an aversion to enforced jollity – for example, the last time I recall being up to see in the New Year in was the Millennium and that shouldn’t really count as I’d actually gone to bed shortly before 8.00pm and found myself [...]

February 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s just the way it is

‘No one in this world, so far as I know … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people’ (H.L. Mencken – journalist/social commentator). ‘There’s a sucker born every minute’ (P.T. Barnum – showman/promoter). The above [...]

April 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Overheard on a street

As I emerged out of a local supermarket store yesterday afternoon, I passed a mother coming towards me who had just alighted from a single-decker red bus accompanied by three small girls, the youngest of which she was propelling in a push-chair along the pavement. “You didn’t have to [...]

December 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

At 12.40pm in south-west London …

The kids just don’t realise they’re born these days. When you’re a senior citizen and no longer employed by anyone, you scarcely have a moment to yourself. There are the daily newspapers, Old Shag pipe tobacco, toilet paper and chipolata sausages to buy, The Jeremy Kyle Show and Good Morning [...]

July 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sometimes you couldn’t make it up

Apparently, some 1,058 people – including 40 Brits – have made a shortlist of candidates for a one-way mission to Mars in 2025 being organised by as Dutch organisation called Mars One. It seems that final selections will be the subject of as reality television show process – see [...]

January 3, 2014 // 0 Comments