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The eyesight conundrum

Yesterday – some six months after I received a reminder from my local high street chain – I toddled along for my latest eye test, my two previous ones having been in 2014 and 2011 (as I learned minutes into my exam). Now in my mid-sixties I have had a so-so relationship with eye tests and [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here we go!

For Northern Hemisphere fans the this year’s annual Six Nations finale on Saturday – three matches culminating in England’s attempt at securing consecutive Grand Slams and a word record 19 international victories in a row against Ireland in Dublin – is going to be a rugby [...]

March 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Television drama musings

Confession time: by habit I don’t watch much ‘meat and potatoes’ telly, but occasionally – usually by chance – I come across drama series that floats my boat. For example, a few years back I was recommended the (what is now called) the Scandi-Noir piece The Killing featuring detective [...]

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

It all comes back to this

Having been away yesterday on family business I was denied my weekly ritual of watching Prime Minister’s Question from the comfort of my favourite armchair and consequently only learned of the Government U-turn over the Budget’s intended hike in NI contributions for the self-employed from a [...]

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nothing much, but one of those things …

Yesterday afternoon I just happened to be visiting friends in Richmond. As I walked across the bridge I noticed groups of by-passers looking over the side. This was plainly because something of unusual interest or amusement had happened and prompted a spontaneous pedestrian version of [...]

March 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Stop the tartan tail wagging the dog!

Thank God that Nicola Sturgeon has crawled out from under the skirting board and declared her intention to have second referendum on Scottish independence at some point in the autumn of 2018 or spring of 2019, I say! I’m privileged to announce, after an intense morning on the telephone and [...]

March 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Fortunately I was driving

Sunday 12th March: Anglo-Welsh Cup semi-final: Exeter Chiefs v Harlequins & Sandy Park, Exeter, kick-off 3.00pm: Result – Exeter Chiefs 24 Harlequins 7. Yesterday, after lunch at the conclusion of a four-day stint staying with my nonagenarian father, I was sitting with my parent and his carer [...]

March 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Losing it on the descent

For me, Frankie Howerd was one of those ‘Marmite’ comedians – you either loved or hated him. As I remember his career, he originally made his name in the British late Music Hall and early radio era (he even had his own comic strip in The Beano or some similar kids’ publication) but then [...]

March 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

A churchyard matter

Last week my father told me when I was down for a visit that the grave of his sister, who died last September aged 94, was in a state of some disrepair in a nearby churchyard – he knew this because he’d recently visited it in the company of my brother. Yesterday, having completely a food shop [...]

March 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Snore-fest Phil

Pardon me for straying onto territory usually covered by others on the editorial team of this esteemed organ, but yesterday I decided to stay indoors from 11.30am specifically in order to watch Prime Minister’s Question Time from the House of Commons, followed by Philip Hammond, Chancellor of the [...]

March 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

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