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A welcome phone call

Yesterday I had a phone call from an old pal whom has known my extended family for years. At first we chatted about this and that – bringing each other up to date on our various relations and offspring – which took an enjoyable and interesting quarter of an hour. He then said he had [...]

January 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Lone Piper

Yesterday I attended the funeral of a lady who died aged 100, the scion of a family I know over 4 generations. There are many similarities with my own family, not least an excellent sense of humour which extends not just to droll witticisms but making random events and personalities amusing. On [...]

January 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

Two inspiring meals

No disrespect to Daffers but you do not have to go to “high on the hog” restaurants to have an enjoyable time. On Monday I invited my Italian chiropodist to lunch at a local pizzeria. Trimming the Tickler toe nails might seem an unlikely spring board for a friendship but I have known [...]

January 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

Politics – the art of fiddling whilst Rome burns

A slight departure for your author this morning as I veer off-piste in order to address the thorny issues of Defence and Politics which – in normal circumstances – I would normally leave to those more intelligent or indeed interested in them than myself. In doing so I am making neither a bid [...]

January 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

Making the best of a bad situation

Sunday 21st January 2018 – European Champions Cup Pool 1; La Rochelle v Harlequins at Stade Marcel Deflandre: La Rochelle 16 Harlequins 7. Final Pool 1 positions: La Rochelle 20 points; Wasps 17; Ulster 17; Harlequins 7. And so Harlequins ended their 2017-2018 ERCC campaign as bottom of Pool 1, [...]

January 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

It never rains but it pours

No apologies from me today for continuing to chronicle the the plethora of troubles facing the sport of rugby union – and certainly none of them attracting ‘I told you so’ comments from me. DOES THE THE GAME’S ADMINISTRATION WORK FOR EVERYONE? Last week I spoke to a [...]

January 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

Saturday morning

This morning I awoke at my usual ungodly hour, fired up the computer and began going about my habitual business by visiting UK’s national newspaper websites (I assure you, the ‘serious ones’ only). Later this morning I shall be going over the road – about 6.45am if I am on [...]

January 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

Another day

Guy de Maupassant, in his novel A Life, ended with the observation that life is neither as bad or as good as you anticipate. I thought of this yesterday in reviewing a day in which I had an unexpected highlight and something I was looking forward to proved a disappointment. The highlight was the [...]

January 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Another fine mess

Life is unfair. You get born – wake up – and find that either you’re the third son of a Duke of the realm and discover that everything is presented to you on a plate and you’re never going to have earn a living … or you’re the fourth son of a couple living on state benefits in a sink [...]

January 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

Life keeps moving

Yesterday my brother and I drove separately into the countryside in order to spend some time with our father and attend a meeting with an executive of the agency that provides his live-in carers. Although it may sound glaring obvious, when a close family member reaches his tenth decade one becomes [...]

January 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

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