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Some call it progress

In this era of supposed gender equality it sometimes seems as if there’s been little progress in human relationships and ‘the battle of the sexes’. Here’s a link to an article by Barbara Ellen that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN Sometimes we like to kid ourselves that [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Being driven crazy

Six years ago I went on a holiday to Italy which involved flying in to Pisa, hiring a car to travel to our chosen villa and then – at the end of our stay – then driving to leave the car at, and fly home from, Rome airport. A couple of months later, out of the blue, I received a [...]

April 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of things to come

In an otherwise unremarkable day, yesterday I filled up my car with fuel and – in the course of doing errands and seeing people – I ended up in Bicester, twelve miles or so up the M40 beyond Oxford, visiting my daughter and her partner for a pizza meal and general catch-up. I’m not quite sure [...]

April 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

At last!

Some great thinkers and commentators have the capacity to get to the core of humanity’s eternal truths. I guess it’s arguable as to whether, when Samuel Johnson pronounced that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel some 240 years ago, he fingered one of them. Nevertheless, you won’t [...]

April 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Recalling memories from the past

Down at the coast, spending some time with my father, yesterday I came across an example of a common experience with elderly people, i.e. that their memory of recent events can be sketchy but their recall of events long ago pretty pin-sharp. My mother, who spent the last years of her life in a [...]

April 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Living in the present

Writing as someone whose degree of contact with the ways of the modern world is relatively limited and simultaneously – as technological progress continues at its breakneck speed – decreasing exponentially, I am watching from the welcome relative safety of the side lines as the generations [...]

April 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Heady stuff

Today I rather enjoyed two politically-related pieces to be found on the website of The Independent, not normally a ‘broadsheet’ that in my experience offers the best heavyweight insights on the subject. Firstly, on the topic of the UK’s EU referendum in June, yesterday Labour leader Jeremy [...]

April 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Out on the water

A couple of days ago I popped off to the south coast with my son Barry, who is in the UK on a brief visit. When he first arrived I put him on my car’s insurance, since when he’s been driving around the country in it, having medicals, and meeting up with business contacts and personal friends. [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

A ‘nothing’ day with something

Yesterday promised and then delivered bright warm sunshine and I awoke facing nothing more than an in-tray full of correspondence, perhaps a phone-call or two to make and then maybe a trip to the health club at some point in the late afternoon. Then two telephone calls caused things to change. The [...]

April 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Different worlds

My son Barry, a professional seaman, is currently back in the country for one of his rare visits – having his annual medical and catching up with friends and family before returning to Spain where he is based. We have been having some interesting conversations because he has an inquiring mind and [...]

April 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

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