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Sometimes you couldn’t make it up …

It is a fact that inevitably, from time to time, stories appear in the media that seem – to the proverbial ordinary man or woman on the Clapham omnibus who can claim to possess a modicum of plain, old-fashioned, common sense (as we all can) – defy logic and/or fly in the face of every [...]

January 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

Remembering my father

Yesterday was my father’s birthday and – had he not passed away nine years ago – he would have been 99. I think of him every day now, less in terms of loss, more of legacy. He was a wise, gentle man, a superb, much-loved and respected doctor by his general GP practice as well as his [...]

January 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko

In the week I saw two interesting documentaries on these two major figures of American twentieth century art; the first on Andy Warhol was on BBC 4, the second last night on PBS. In my view Andy Warhol was a genius at self-promotion and marketing, but not as a painter. Like Rothko, he came from an [...]

January 8, 2022 // 0 Comments

Upon entering Christmas week …

Since the beginning on the month, I suspect in common with the bulk of the British public, my family has spent much of its time keeping our originally intended plans for celebrating Christmas under review while also monitoring the latest daily developments in the Omicron variant crisis in case the [...]

December 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

More viewings

My picture fest continued in London with 2 visits to the Royal Academy and a view of the pictures on view at the Richard Green Gallery. I visited the Summer Show at the RA. In trying to reposition themselves for a younger audience, standards have dropped and most of the pictures –  garish in [...]

December 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Standing up for what counts

Sometimes it occurs to me that, given the frequency with which contributors to this organ feel obliged to open their musings with an apology and/or ‘declaration of interest’ for being either an oldie and/or generally ‘out of touch’, our average reader might be forgiven for gaining the [...]

December 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Happy Christmas, everyone!

One of the fascinating aspects of the ongoing saga of the Covid-19 pandemic – latest development the “discovery” of the Omicron variant believed by some to have first occurred in southern Africa, if not South Africa itself – is that the battalions of both the “No other way to deal with [...]

December 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

View from the coal face

Last week I completed my annual medical review with a consultation with a cardiologist. I do not imagine this is is of great interest to the reader other than that I can report I passed my MOT and was signed off for another year. What may be of interest is how a medical professional views the [...]

November 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Enough to drive you to drink

Writing, as I do today, from the perspective of someone just past their seventieth birthday, I have become all too familiar with the occasional brush with indicators of the ageing process as they affect me from time to time. As regards what are sometimes called “senior moments” – e.g. [...]

November 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

Yours bionically

I have had my booster jab. As with my first and second vaccination the organisation was spot on with a minimum of waiting and a very cheerful nurse administering. I was also given a helpful leaflet on the effects of the injection. My chief medical advisor – Grania – warned that I may [...]

November 19, 2021 // 0 Comments

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