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THE STEPPING MACHINE Last night, after yet another day spent largely in front of a computer screen (for reasons of both necessity and choice) – bar one short trip by car for a food shop – at about 5.00pm I deliberately set off to stride up to my gym for a session intended to ‘blow the [...]

October 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

Well, what do you know?

I have a confession to make. I am not a great reader of books and never have been. Being a robust, physical little kid, I always found the prospect of concentrating upon anything as sedentary as studying or indeed ‘reading for pleasure’ as a waste of valuable mischief or sport time. I suppose [...]

October 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

In the blink of an eye

Yesterday I took a train into the West End of London in order to attend an occasional but serial lunch organised by a pal – serial in the respect that they occur two or three times per year and none of the guests ever know in advance who is going to be there, other than everyone will be known to [...]

October 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

What we knew then and now

The biggest media story of the moment is that of the rise and fall of 65 year old movie mogul Harvey Weinstein – well, not so much about his rise to being one of the most powerful men in Hollywood for more than two decades, but his spectacular fall from grace over his predatory sexual behaviour. [...]

October 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hold the phone!

Call the quack. I’m reporting myself for a ginormous ‘senior moment’ overnight and am beginning to feel that those snivelling turncoats and junior family members who have been chipping away at my confidence and sanity by regularly telling me I need to go for a cognitive [...]

October 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The ‘art’ of keeping a diary

Way back in 1989 – I just looked this date up on the internet – I bought an excellent anthology of diary entries entitled Each Returning Day: The Pleasure of Diaries, edited by a gent named Ronald Blythe. I no longer have my copy, but I remember it fondly partly because at the time I was in the [...]

October 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

The complexities of life

Sometimes the issues attendant upon possessing and living with an elderly relative are, or gradually become, complex, disarming, enlightening and occasionally bizarre. Perhaps, simply because human society is such a contrary and wonderful thing, nobody should be surprised about this. In addition, [...]

September 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Grooming and relationships

On this organ we sometimes poke fun at the ways of the media – you know the sort of thing, ‘silly summer stories’, spectacular ‘fails’ going viral, and of course the time-honoured staple of madcap scientific surveys with blanket generalisations for conclusions that are either [...]

September 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Peering into the future

It’s a funny old place, this 21st Century, politically-correct, equal opportunity driven, gender neutral or fluid (whichever it is, I’m getting confused these days) world we live in. The latest retailer to fall foul of the do-gooders – or is it ‘game changers’? – is John Lewis, [...]

September 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

What’s sauce for the goose …

As I understand it from media reports overnight, Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn – who was once in favour of them on principle, has now rejected the proposal made earlier this week by shadow fire minister Chris Williamson, MP for Derby North, that ‘women only’ railways carriages should [...]

August 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

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