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A partner in an international firm of loss adjusters, William is a keen blogger and member of the internet community. More Posts

A flying visit to a flying museum

Yesterday – partly because we, particularly my father, had never been there before – his carer and I drove for two and a half hours to take my aged father to the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton in what I’d describe as the West Country but may just not be: put it this way, [...]

September 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

Life goes on

I’m currently spending a couple of days in the country with my aged father. He’s not in a particularly good shape these days, mentally or physically, but hey that’s life when you’re a nonagenarian. Yesterday shortly before lunch an octogenarian gent and friend of my father’s drove over, [...]

August 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

Back in residence

Families – huh? Who’d have them? For the last ten days I have had my 36-year old son Barry staying with me. We’ve always had an intense (some might say ‘love/hate’) relationship. I sometimes like to describe our respective characters as being akin to ‘chalk and cheese’, but I’d [...]

July 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

Just another day in the life

A vignette from yesterday. At some point during the morning, my 92 year old father’s carer rang from the coast to report an incident. As per usual, he had taken a cup of tea up to his bedroom at 7.00am in advance of returning a quarter of an hour later in order to get him up for the day and then [...]

June 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

Still not in it! Phew …

Yesterday I spent my early evening flicking through The Sunday Times Rich List, a pastime that I’m sure many people do simply to marvel at how the other half – or should that be the 0.00005% – live. My day began by popping over the road to get my Sunday newspapers as my local corner shop [...]

May 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

You never think it will happen to you

Hmmnn … well, that was a quite eventful day. At 10.30am I set off to walk to my local train station to travel to central London for lunch with and old friend and a pal of his at a club in the rain. Apart from the Tube train – which was scheduled to depart as I reached the platform – [...]

March 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

Pull the other one

Today I know that I’m going to seem like a curmudgeonly old non-PC misogynist by offering my views on this subject. However, I know that this won’t bother my female fellow columnists unduly because all those that I’ve spoken to have told me so. Here’s my text for [...]

March 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

The problem with modern technology (and consumer affairs)

You might think this is a true story – and I couldn’t possibly comment, which is one of the reasons that I shall do my best to keep it short and to the essence (and will probably fail). I reckon I don’t ever watch more than a tenth of the number of television channels I am supplied with [...]

March 11, 2018 // 0 Comments

It’s not dark yet, but it’s getting there

Maybe my views are influenced by an extremely busy programme of commitments I have had since last weekend, but I am beginning to weary of the state of traffic on our roads. I have no idea what Britain’s position is in the country world rankings of ‘vehicles to roads’ potential congestion [...]

March 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

A bit of a diversion

Early this morning, trawling the internet in my daily attempt to both catch up with the world and alight upon something worthwhile to blog about, I found myself resorting to the YouTube website. This organ is a representative example of one of the strange phenomenons of the modern age that [...]

February 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

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