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A chance encounter

Yesterday late afternoon I was chatting on the phone to an old friend who has contracted Coronavirus for 2 weeks. It’s wiped him out though fortunately did not reach his lungs. My friend, though Jewish, holds somewhat passionate atheist views. One matter we discussed in this context was that my [...]

April 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Fantasy legislation

When I was at uni, I played a silly but amusing game with a friend in which we passed legislation in our imaginary country. Thus one day I suggested an act making prostitution compulsory. My friend thought it needed modification in committee stage. After a lengthy meeting in the tea room of the [...]

April 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Waking and sleeping hours

With the lock-down in full swing and Boris now in intensive care a degree of monotony is descending upon the Ingolby household. You can only undertake your daily routine … collect the newspapers, make breakfast, deal with correspondence and bills, listen to the radio, watch television, go [...]

April 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

What’s going on (as Marvin Gaye used to warble)

These are strange times and, the longer the Coronavirus crisis continues, the more I grow concerned about where the 21st Century world of the internet, smartphones and social media is taking us. Overnight I rose to the accompaniment of a phone-in programme on Radio Five Live as I toured the [...]

April 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

A recommended read or two from the Editor

What a splendid thing is the internet – keeping us all in touch with each other as the Coronavirus pandemic continues its progress around the world! Although out here, bobbing around in the ocean on our mooring off the coast of Tenerife, you’d think we’d find our existence somewhat removed [...]

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

A nagging reminder of how great I am

Have you ever sensed that glorious feeling that you are a complete genius and the rest of humanity minnows? I know I have. Although I must admit that as time slips by in this modern world actual instances of the phenomenon are becoming rarer and rarer, I had one on Wednesday. Let me expand. As part [...]

April 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Situation Report: could do better

Apart from trying to do to some PT (as we used to call it) in a pair of 1980s leotards and leg-warmers – plus an old Jane Fonda JVC video that of course I cannot play because nobody has a video-record/player these days – that I found in the corner of one of my wardrobes, my biggest [...]

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

A day in the life of Bob Tickler (self-isolating)

With my cleaner deciding she was no longer coming in and the laundry collection service suspended, I was forced to do my own washing and ironing on bedding change day. The ironing I managed but lowering the ironing board, for which there seemed to be no lever, was more problematic. As I  folded my [...]

March 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Some are getting it … and others aren’t

In this day and age it should surprise nobody that the human world is largely composed of (1) generally well-meaning individuals who try to treat others as they’d like to be treated themselves and also care about those less fortunate than themselves; (2) those that through circumstances beyond [...]

March 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Another day gone

It’s getting tough out here in Lockdown-land. I don’t know what it’s like where other Rusters are living in self-isolation – and don’t get me wrong, we’re all in this together – but living in solitary confinement, which by personal choice I’ve been doing these past twenty years, is [...]

March 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

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