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It’s happening all the time

There are two sides to almost everything and it occurred to me the other day that – in the context of ageing – this applies even to the supposed vicissitudes of a fading memory. As I get older I find myself not only becoming more forgetful but also being accused more often of being so by those [...]

November 7, 2019 // 0 Comments

“Lets have some beers”

The reaction of Eddie Jones to England’s abject performance in the final was 2 days boozing and the group set off to Shinjuku the partying quarter of Tokyo. I don’t get this. They are athletes , alcohol is a depressant , the reality of failure will only be delayed, mental issues dominate [...]

November 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

A sensible precaution?

The only thing stopping me instigating a Rust poll or survey –  simply to find out the various ways that our UK readers’ have devised for themselves in order to cope with the never-ending Brexit crisis – is the prospect that it would only add to the general pain. There’s a general [...]

October 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Saga continues

Readers may recall my profound dissatisfaction with Saga over the renewal of my medical insurance. The premium increased by 100% and when I queried this I was told there was a computor issue. A new letter arrived quoting the disputed sum as last year’s premium and increasing that. In desperation [...]

October 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

The artist with the needle

This was the flattering but largely accurate description of my late father who as a doctor rose to prominence for vaccination. He inoculated the Royals, England’s football team, the Royal Opera company, symphony orchestras and Harold Macmillan whom he much admired. He found Macmillan to be a [...]

September 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Full marks to M & S

A few years ago I suffered a potentially fatal disease which resulted in numerous skin grafts and scarring. After that experience I became involved in a charity helping victims of disfigurement and researching into it. So it’s an area where I have some experience. Last week I stopped at the M [...]

September 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fitness campaign update

“You couldn’t make it up …” is the traditional time-honoured opening from the tabloid newspapers when launching into a “Woe is me” report or story about the latest example of a government, or those in some measure of authority or another somewhere, introducing some new daft new policy [...]

September 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

A report from the outer edge of fitness

I occasionally blog upon the travails of my fitness campaign – a bit of a misnomer in recent times after the gym I frequented burned to the ground about six months ago – and so those uninterested in the minutae of an individual’s life can now perhaps move on to more entertaining subjects [...]

September 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Things to worry about

With everything that’s going on at the moment, one might be forgiven for believing that we’re all going to hell in a hand cart, the end of human civilisation is night, nothing is sacred anymore, the globe and its politicians have lost all sense of reason and we’ve plainly reached the point [...]

August 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

All about nothing

We are all different – some might suggest that is what makes the world go around. Whether we are ginger-haired, white, black, mixed-race, bald, short-sighted, disabled in some way, excessively tall or short, male, female, transgender, ‘identifying today as some gender we weren’t yesterday’, [...]

August 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

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