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Living in annual festive limbo

By this time of year, like most of the population, I tend to have abandoned all restraint and am ‘going for it’ on the basis that all diets, exercise campaigns, New Year resolutions and vague goals to do better in every aspect of life can and should always begin again with renewed vigour and [...]

December 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Men are from Mars? Well, from some distant planet certainly

Sometimes – especially during the festive period when we ladies bear the brunt of the multi-tasking organising, buying and arranging – you just have to laugh. Here’s a link to an article that I spotted today on the subject of men shopping at a certain lingerie store that tickled [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Delusion – or the art of getting the wrong end of the stick

In the world of television it is an eternal article of faith that there exists absolutely no accounting for taste and no correlation at all between quality of production and popular success. Back in the days when I worked briefly in the UK television industry I soon lost count of the number of [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s in a reputation?

Last week Jimmy Hill and Greville Janner, two gentlemen of public note who had been stricken with dementia of one form or another, both died at the age of eighty-seven. I ought to note here that I always steer clear of stating that anyone actually died of dementia because, having had a close family [...]

December 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ba Humbug!

And so the festive season is in full swing – the television schedules are all over the place; pre-Xmas sales are being advertised on the high street; media columnists from every department are compiling their highlights of 2015; BBC Sports Personality Of The Year takes place tomorrow; odd members [...]

December 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A regular unwelcome reminder

Call me an old cynic but one of the most dispiriting aspects of politics and current affairs is being exposed to the thoughts and opinions of the average British voter – though I don’t doubt for a moment that this observation could also be applied to any voter in any democratic country and [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

Events, dear boy …

Here’s an article worth reading – and not because I agree with it, I hasten to add – on the UK’s in-out referendum on the EU, written by columnist Steve Richards, which appears today on the website of – THE [...]

December 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Damned if you do …

I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I find David Cameron a pretty unimpressive politician, having for many years now alighted upon (and stuck to) the view that he’s little more than a Tory version of Tony Blair. In other words, despite all his brave words and gestures – I’m not saying [...]

December 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cause for concern

The subject of paedophilia has always been as troubling one for human society for all sorts of reasons – even over the past week boxer Tyson Fury has caused a media storm by making public un-PC comments about a number of things, including homosexuality. In his case, as I understand it, weight was [...]

December 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Why am I surprised it’s coming to this ..?

As an ‘oldie’ I’m very conscious that modern technology if not life, is leaving me behind, albeit the fact doesn’t particularly bother me. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that I appreciated, while completing the survey of best/favourite songs that my brother occasionally conducts, that [...]

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

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