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On addressing tough subjects

A fascinating aspect of the Coronavirus crisis is the light it has directed upon the humanity’s attitudes to mortality and death. This is a tricky subject because it simultaneously touches upon the fact that every living species goes about its daily business from a starting point that death is [...]

April 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Easter weekend musings

Here’s another of my reports from the fitness front line, hampered as it is slightly by the callus or growth – you’ll have to excuse my lack of medical knowledge – on the ball of my left foot and the Achilles tendon yank/chronic inflammation which has troubled me now for seven months. [...]

April 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Reflections on a sunny day

Maybe it’s because I’ve got too much time on my hands during the lockdown but I’m beginning to get irritated by both aspects of the coverage of the current crisis and some of the ironies about the world that the UK experience has highlighted. Let me give some examples. Arguably, because of [...]

April 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

From a frown to a smile

For my sins, I tuned into Dominic Raab’s press conference yesterday shortly after 5.00pm on BBC1. The charade goes on. He spouts meaningless politico-speak guff, over-rehearsed and as if on auto-pilot. Yet the hounds of Fleet Street still do likewise. They’re after a “story for [...]

April 10, 2020 // 0 Comments

Waking and sleeping hours

With the lock-down in full swing and Boris now in intensive care a degree of monotony is descending upon the Ingolby household. You can only undertake your daily routine … collect the newspapers, make breakfast, deal with correspondence and bills, listen to the radio, watch television, go [...]

April 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

What’s going on (as Marvin Gaye used to warble)

These are strange times and, the longer the Coronavirus crisis continues, the more I grow concerned about where the 21st Century world of the internet, smartphones and social media is taking us. Overnight I rose to the accompaniment of a phone-in programme on Radio Five Live as I toured the [...]

April 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

A recommended read or two from the Editor

What a splendid thing is the internet – keeping us all in touch with each other as the Coronavirus pandemic continues its progress around the world! Although out here, bobbing around in the ocean on our mooring off the coast of Tenerife, you’d think we’d find our existence somewhat removed [...]

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

A little bit of honesty wouldn’t go amiss

US President Donald Trump – a special and indeed unique case in the history of Man – aside, yesterday the UK Government stood out yesterday by continuing its ludicrous late afternoon “Number 10 press conferences” seeking to give the impression that from the outset it had been in charge, and [...]

April 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Situation Report: could do better

Apart from trying to do to some PT (as we used to call it) in a pair of 1980s leotards and leg-warmers – plus an old Jane Fonda JVC video that of course I cannot play because nobody has a video-record/player these days – that I found in the corner of one of my wardrobes, my biggest [...]

April 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

Some are getting it … and others aren’t

In this day and age it should surprise nobody that the human world is largely composed of (1) generally well-meaning individuals who try to treat others as they’d like to be treated themselves and also care about those less fortunate than themselves; (2) those that through circumstances beyond [...]

March 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

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