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And so it comes to this

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I wake up in the night and go on the newspaper websites to catch up with what’s happening and wish I hadn’t bothered. A lady could get depressed reading the doom-mongering stuff being put about in the media. Never mind Brexit, Donald Trump, Syria, [...]

December 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s a dog’s life, of course

Let’s leave the loonies appearing in the Jeremy Kyle Show who live on Benefits Street, smoke industrial quantities of dope, do most of their communicating with their fellow man or woman on Facebook and seem to specialise in exotic pets like pythons, lizards and terrapins … Most people I know in [...]

March 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stuff

Last week I met up with a lady of my regular acquaintance – a great lover of animals, especially dogs, almost to the point where she prefers them to humans – who in passing remarked that it was now over a month since she had to take the second of her pooches to the vet to have him put down. [...]

December 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s the 21st Century after all …

We’re all products of our own age, or perhaps that should be ‘… of our own lives between the ages of 18 and 24’? I like to think that I’m a liberal (with a small ‘L’) sort of a guy who embraces the proposition that we should all be able to do exactly what we want, provided of course [...]

November 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to an old chum

A lady of my acquaintance has endured a very tough week. She had to take her twelve year old dog to the vets yesterday to have him put down. I am a big fan of dogs – when I was young my parents had two brindle boxers in succession – but have only ever owned one in my life, a highly [...]

October 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s raining cats and dogs

Ignoring those unfortunates who despise all animals, when it comes to domestic pets – and for these purposes I’m ignoring incarcerated beings such as snakes, lizards, tortoises, turtles, terrapins, rats, mice, stoats, ermine, hamsters, guinea pigs, goats, guinea fowl, parrots, cockatoos, [...]

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s an each way thing

Dogs make great companions. When I was a young kid, my parents had two boxers in succession – tails docked because was the fashion in those days and I still feel that since its banning somehow a boxer with a full tail looks odd – and they make great family pets. Partly. For kids they were [...]

September 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Well, it got to me

Sometimes with amusing tales you had to have been there to ‘get the joke’ and sometimes things which tickle your personal funny-bone just don’t seem that funny to others. Nevertheless, for what it’s worth, here’s a true story that appealed to me yesterday. I was speaking to a lady who [...]

July 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Equestrian World

Phil and I were never blessed with children. I confess I led too active a life as a travel writer and when we tried it was too late. So we regard Polly, an accomplished young equestrian, as the daughter we both never had and had we, we would have wanted. Polly rides internationally, breeds and [...]

January 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Happy new Year from Cassius

In spite of his largely self created reputation as a Don Juan, there was a notable absence of any of his fancy women last night at the Master’s table . He did not even offer me a  sliver of his Cote de Boeuf . Happy New year to you and all your loved ones. [...]

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

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