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Another one missed I’m afraid

Friday 10th February 2017: Aviva Premiership; Bristol Rugby v Harlequins at Ashton Gate: Result – Bristol Rugby 8 Harlequins 42: Harlequins 5 league points for a (4 try) bonus point victory. Here’s another advance warning: this is another non-report from your Quins correspondent, which now [...]

February 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Saying goodbye

Two funerals in the past fortnight for your author and as a direct result therefore also as few reflections upon mortality and life. As it happens, I was attending the first of them – of someone I barely knew – only as a companion to someone else, but yesterday’s farewell was to a formidable [...]

February 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

A memorable lunch

Yesterday my brother and I took our father for a visit to where he and his parents used to live in south London between about 1932 and 1939, this before going on for lunch with one of his oldest remaining pals, with whom he had been a prep school before the start of WW2. As is the nature of life [...]

February 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Coming home to roost

Yesterday as per normal I spent my morning in my favourite arm chair surrounded by the Sunday newspapers and watching BBC1 – viz. The Andrew Marr Show, Nicky Campbell’s The Big Questions and Andrew Neil’s Sunday Politics. It’s a habit that’s hard to break. Something struck me as Nicky [...]

February 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

A troubling case

There is no way that you could describe me as a left-winger and – in general terms, partly due to my exposure to pals or acquaintances who have had military experience, and indeed families therefore – I am a respecter of all those who have served their country in uniform. On principle I tend to [...]

February 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Broadening the mind?

The cliche goes that travel broadens the mind. I have found it does but in surprising ways. One of the consequences of my 6 week trip to the Far East was my perception of my own country. I was educated to the belief that the British Empire was a civilising force amongst primitive natives, that it [...]

February 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Holding on by the fingertips

A recurring theme of posts to this website can be filed under the heading ‘Moans About New Technology’. These tend to range from complaints about things that don’t work – or don’t work for oldies – to discourses about whether it is just a fact of life that that the modern world [...]

January 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

A weekend boxing feast

For those of us like to stay up – or more likely at our vintage, go to bed at our normal time and then hope to wake up in the early hours and then rise again – to watch some of the USA’s biggest boxing fight bills on television, Saturday night’s return bout between Belfast’s hero Carl [...]

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Maybe a common sense approach would work

According to my brief researches on the internet it was Oscar Wilde who originated the bon mot about life tending to imitating art (rather than the other way around) and already it’s semi-amusing to see how the American right’s flirtation with its Trump Experiment is simultaneously shaking up [...]

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Keeping up (or not)

Speaking as someone whose own daughter met her partner via an internet dating site, I have never made any secret of my concern at the direction in which the modern world of technology and omnipresent social media has taken human relations and most particularly sexual ones. I guess it was a sign of [...]

January 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

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