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Roger, over … and out

Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Whilst spending Friday and Saturday with my aged parent in the country – in a spot where mobile network signals are sometimes variable to the point where anyone wishing to use a mobile tends to to set off towards the bottom of the garden in the quest to [...]

October 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Even Groundhog Days are different

Watching your own parent travel into old age is a strange process, a bit like looking down the list of notable people’s birthdays in the Times or the Telegraph, being surprised at how old some of the icons of your youth have become, or even marvelling that they’re still alive … and then [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Working it all out

Whenever we contemplate life’s innumerable mysteries, the imaginative scope of the human brain soon reaches its outer limits and we have to resort to head-shaking wonder and quite possibly the issue of whether God exists or not and other similarly-profound matters. It is almost as if the more [...]

September 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

For those who may have not the slightest interest in hip replacement operations, this is probably the moment to move on to another item. Today I am simply posting one of my irregular blogs on the subject because today marks the completion of nine weeks since I had mine. In terms of formal contacts [...]

September 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

A new one on me

As some who is rapidly approaching his eighth decade, I find that both instinctively and rationally (not necessarily at the same time) I am constantly adjusting my perspective on what is and is not important, relevant or worthy of my attention. There are some aspects of life that I like to think [...]

September 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

They say pride comes before a fall, but I’m happy to record today that I now feel I’m ‘on the up’ as regards recovering from my hip operation (eight weeks ago this coming Friday). I won’t bother you with an exhausting recap. Suffice it to say that, after an initial period of making swift [...]

September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Knuckling down to it

With apologies to those who have not been following my progress since having a full right hip replacement in July, and (now I think of it) probably also to those who have, I return again to my chosen subject rather more swiftly than I might otherwise have done for the simple reason that on Bank [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of ageing

We all know the harsher facts of 21st Century life. Perhaps save for in some distant, Third World, geographically-or-climate-change-challenged countries, continents and regions, the civilised human world faces an innumerable series of societal issues of which ongoing medical advances and healthy [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Stuck in the middle

This weekend I am down at the coast and trying to keep to a routine of doing my new, more strenuous, physio exercises. Now six weeks out from my hip operation (the point at which, anecdotally, most ‘hippers’ are told they should be fit enough to return to work) I am still some way behind where [...]

August 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time

Yesterday I popped over to spend a couple of hours with my old friend Patrick in order to work upon our latest pet project. Before we got down to business, in catching up upon each other’s news, I mentioned in passing that a couple of days previously my younger brother had told me that one of his [...]

August 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

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