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More heat than light

Yesterday morning – in the course of reading the newspapers, pleased that, due largely to the combined efforts of my other half’s superbly-professional lawyers and accountants, our names had not appeared in The Sunday Time Rich List for the ninth year running – I watched the second half [...]

April 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Only two more to go now …

Yesterday I was unable to watch the Harlequins’ away Premiership match against Sale (a 23-25 victory). This was because, although I’ve been to see Quins play away against Sale twice before [at their old ground, a bit of an ordeal because it was in a pretty primitive state], I wasn’t in the [...]

April 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

The last farewell

Yesterday I was privileged to join my father at the 68th (and last) reunion of WW2 Fleet Air Arm servicemen trained at HMS St Vincent in Gosport, which took place at the Navy Club in Hill Street, behind Park Lane in London. The original HMS St Vincent was a first-rate ship launched on 11th March [...]

April 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

For conspicuous bravery

[Above: the action of the night of 20th/21st April 1915 which led to the award of the VC to 2nd Lieutenant Geoffrey Woolley] The extraordinary thing about indulging in a hobby passion such as WW1 research is how often another piece of the jigsaw falls at your feet. Last night I arrived on the south [...]

April 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Two weeks to go and bailing out …

We’ve now reached the ‘a fortnight to go’ point in the 2015 General Election and I have come to certain key conclusions about the campaign which I suspect may well also apply to all General Elections in history. The first is that – broadly speaking – most voters have already made up [...]

April 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

The economic facts of life

One of the weirder aspects of the Election campaign – repeatedly aired in the Leaders’ Debates on television – is the polar extremes of how those of differing political persuasion view strategies to deal with the state of Britain’s finances. The Tories have, as usual, nailed their [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

He’s made a big mistake

Right – that does it! It’s war! Yesterday I went up to the health club again in the mid-afternoon. I looked at my ‘watch’-type thing that tells me not only the time, but also how many steps I’ve taken and calories I’ve burned off each day and it said “1613” (i.e. 4.13pm) as I [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

The same old, same old politics

Party out of duty, partly out of interest, I tuned in last night (Monday 20th April) to watch The Leader Interviews: Ed Miliband at 7.30pm on BBC1. Said grillings are conducted by Newsnight presenter Evan Davis, who for some is a bit of an acquired taste. However, I am neutral on the issue because [...]

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Triumph, at last!

Yesterday, over a week after I last visited, I went to the health club in the late afternoon. Having devised a fitness plan consisting of ‘the bleedin’ obvious’ (‘Eat better and less, plus take exercise’), my failure to go to the gym for the above-mentioned length of time had been [...]

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Falling off the pace

Ten days ago I came across a couple of signs that modern life is leaving me behind. I first received a communication from DVLA in Swansea announcing that my car tax disc was due to be renewed at the end of the month. Actually, hold the phone, that isn’t quite true. My tax disc wasn’t due for [...]

April 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

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