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Life on the ocean wave

My Godson Jamie yesterday had his much anticipated mackerel birthday fishing trip. He had been looking forward to this for ages but so volatile has been the weather that I worried it may be adjourned. The old boy who sold the ticket and might have benefited from a  course in customer service did [...]

June 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so to the final straight …

Last night, staying with my aged father on the south coast, I tuned in to watch the BBC1’s Question Time EU Referendum live ‘Special’ at 6.45pm in which Prime Minister David Cameron stood on a studio podium and faced an audience of questioners under the stewardship of veteran presenter David [...]

June 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

A fun reunion

Five decades ago – whilst incarcerated in the countryside at public school – my boarding house was joined for a single academic year by an American. In the intervening years we have exchanged occasion letters and latterly emails and last week, when he came to London briefly, we took the [...]

June 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hold on a minute, ladies!

Here’s another blast on the trumpet against ‘the monstruous [sic] regiment of women’ [origin, out of copyright by now, John Knox 1558]. At the risk of outing myself as am antediluvian male misogynist stuck in the 1950s, I couldn’t help noticing overnight two examples in the media that [...]

June 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

What’s going on? (as Marvin Gaye once sang)

The awful, tragic, events of yesterday in Birstall, West Yorkshire – when Labour MP for Batley and Spen Jo Cox was killed by a constituent in the street – quite rightly caused all other matters of state and nation to be pushed aside from public attention. Times and incidents like this, such the [...]

June 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

There – I did it!

Little in this life is more calculated to forcibly remind a human being of the swiftness at which time slips away than sitting down, fondly recalling something memorable from one’s past and simply working out just how long ago it occurred. In days of yore (at the dawn of the professional era in [...]

June 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some things don’t feel fair

Many years ago – no, make that many decades ago – I used to be a lawyer before I moved on to other things. As a result, although I retain a working understanding of the basic principles involved in areas of the law that I formerly practised in, I am more than prepared to declare upfront that my [...]

June 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

EU Referendum-watch (again)

With just over a week to go to the vote on the EU Referendum there is a certain inevitability about a number of aspects. Both sides are now frenetically reviewing their campaign strategies on a daily basis and accordingly deploying different spokespeople peddling different ‘stories’ in order to [...]

June 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Back in the old routine

Early yesterday evening I went up to the gym to blow a few cobwebs away by doing what at my age I would call a session (but maybe those under the age of forty might not because it consists of me doing only whatever exercising I can until immediately I feel either body or spirit becoming unwilling). [...]

June 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

EU Referendum-watch

My overnight (Saturday into Sunday) trawl of the newspaper websites has revealed reports that Labour MP Chuka Umunna is claiming that if the Referendum outcome is a Brexit victory it will be a win for Far Right ‘dog whistle’ politics; that the latest polls show that the two opposing campaigns [...]

June 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

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