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As an oldie myself, I could not help sympathising with actor Tom Cruise four or five days ago when garish media stories went viral about a stunt that went wrong whilst he was filming a roof top chase sequence for the movie Mission: Impossible 6. I should add here that I don’t get out much these [...]

August 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting used to it

On Saturday I read an excellent review of Robert McCrum’s new book Every Third Thought by Robert Lewis – one of my favourite book critics – in the Review section of The Times newspaper. Rather like the Literary Review, which I also buy every month, I regard the newspaper weekend [...]

August 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

The important (only) thing is getting there

Yesterday I attended a military services reunion function with my father – as, it were, his ‘wingman’ and supporter. In all honesty, I had no personal right to be there, my sole connection with matters military being confined to unwilling participation in my school’s combined cadet force [...]

August 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

I didn’t know I had it, but it makes sense

As someone with a lifelong ‘early to bed and early to rise’ habit, I don’t mind admitting that my practice from the age of about fifty had been to rise on the dot of 5.24am, come wind, rain or shine. I didn’t even need to set an alarm clock; somehow it seemed I was programmed to awake at [...]

July 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

A case of pulling out the pin and getting out of here …

Okay, I’m coming out of the woods with my hands up. I’m male and my ‘topic de jour’ is the vexed one of women in sport. Last night, by complete chance since my gaff had been invaded by an electrician who has taken the best of two months to repair the non-working lights system in my front [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

This shoulder of a giant doesn’t need standing upon

Staying in the country over the weekend, on Saturday in perfect weather conditions we joined a party that took a motor launch out of harbour and across the Solent to drop anchor off Bembridge in the Isle of Wight. Our purpose was no more than to enjoy a birthday picnic lunch and watch some of the [...]

July 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Treating triumph and disaster just the same

Yesterday I travelled to the Pre-Operation Assessment centre at the hospital where I had my hip replacement operation last year, having been requested to do so in order to take further part in the research project which I had consented to join shortly before my operation took place. Regular readers [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Road to Damascus

Old people – and I am one – who needs them, huh? Before the pedants among you get out your New Testaments and quote the story about the desirability of taking the beam out of your own eye before taking the mote of someone else’s [at first I wasn’t going to look the reference up, but then I [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

It never rains but it pours

Yesterday was largely taken up with travelling to the designated medical centre for an appointment for a screening offered to me (as someone over the age of 65) by the NHS that is designed to provide an early warning sign – if any be detected – of a potential future abdominal aortic [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s one or the other

It’s no secret that contributors this particular media organ tend to reflect, describe or report upon events and occurrences – if not modern life itself – from the perspective of people who are rather older than “that the average bear” (as Yogi Bear might have said, not that many [...]

May 31, 2017 // 0 Comments

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