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Don’t waste it!

“The funny thing is, I find the more I practice the luckier I get” – Gary Player’s famous response to someone who had suggested that a brilliant shot to the green during his just-finished round had involved a slice of good fortune – was far more than just a slick response to a cheeky [...]

June 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Completion

It’s a strange fact of life that you wait for months for news but it often arrives when you are least prepared for it. I have been involved for over a year in an Executor’s sale of property which proved something of a saga . It was scheduled to complete yesterday, but my attitude was I [...]

June 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Adapting creative ideas from the past for future exploitation

Down at the coast for the next ten days to sail, I spent most of yesterday on the Mountfield sit-upon motor-mower, playing catch-up on the ‘painting the Forth Bridge’ chore of clipping the various lawns. The Mountfield does the business okay but, from a layman’s perspective, comes with an [...]

June 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Once upon a time …

My first-ever WW1 battlefield tour, over two decades ago now, began with joining a coach at Victoria Station which departed for a Channel ferry and then on towards Ypres. Our guide, a former military man who was rarely without a gin-and-tonic in one hand and a cigarette in the other, specialised in [...]

June 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Once more to the breach

After my MRI scan last week, yesterday I returned to hospital for steroid/anaesthetic jab on my troublesome hip which contains the beginnings of osteoarthritis. It’s a general fact of life – well, mine anyway – that, faced with undergoing some sort of novel medical examination or procedure, [...]

June 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Strap yourselves in!

Family considerations already taken into account, I shall be up early  – well 0800 hours  UK time  – on Saturday 7th June in order to watch Sky Sport’s ‘live’ coverage of the first of three rugby tests that England play on their tour of New Zealand. In this piece I shall make [...]

June 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting a grip

Whilst I could not claim that it is a particular interest of mine, I find I have no shortage of opinions upon football matters. [That fact is one of life’s little oddities, isn’t it? As a general rule, the more you know about a subject, the harder it is to reach an absolute truth upon it.] [...]

June 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

A memorable experience

Do stop me if I’ve told you this one before! Yesterday, as I was tidying up the sitting room, in a cabinet – amongst my CD collection – I came across a battered old cassette album of operatic arias sung by the Bulgarian dramatic soprano Ghena Dimitrova (1941-2005). I had no means of [...]

June 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s like cool

Yesterday I was travelling by train. I had my Saturday papers of choice, the Telegraph and Independent, and was looking forward to a leisurely read. Two young women then decided to sit opposite. As is so often the case, however hard I tried to read the papers, I found myself listening to their [...]

June 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

A scan experience

Yesterday, because of my hip/groin problem, I went to hospital to have an MRI scan on my lower spine. I’m a veteran of MRI scans, in the sense I had one about two months ago on my hip. More recently I visited a new consultant who informed me I would probably be in line to have a hip replacement [...]

May 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

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