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Ken Howard (1932-2022)

I was more than saddened to hear my old friend Ken Howard has passed away. A brilliant painter of light with an ebullient personality, Ken was the son of a Kilburn carpenter. He got his breakthrough as an artist covering ‘The Troubles’, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, though not [...]

September 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

In a Lonely Place

Normally I watch a film from my extensive library, rent it via Amazon, or watch one on Netflix more designed for the young viewer. Occasionally I am drawn by a film on television on one of the movie channels and this occasion was last week’s In a Lonely Place. I was influenced by a strong cast of [...]

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

Transgender issues and common sense

I’m all for freedom of choice  – within reason, of course, not least provided that this doesn’t involve harm to others and taking into account the primacy of the principle that the pursuit of the greatest good for the greatest number is generally a “good thing” by [...]

September 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

adieu Lyndhurst House

I was saddened to hear of the closure of my prep school Lyndhurst House which I attended between 1960 and 67. It was one of those huge, rambling houses in Hampstead with teachers that reminded me in their eccentricity of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall.   Overseeing it all was a northern [...]

August 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sleep

In the week I watched a programme presented by Michael Mosley on sleep. He underwent various tests by a research team in Oxford University on his  mental state during the various stages of sleep. One of the team made the extraordinary assertion – which went unchallenged – that poor [...]

August 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

A shopping incident

Mid-morning yesterday – after taking a dog to the vet – Christine, my better half, and I stopped off at our local example of a well-know supermarket store so that I could nip in to buy my preferred national newspaper, some pet food and lastly three loaves of a specialist sour dough bread [...]

August 4, 2022 // 0 Comments

Reflections – Women’s Euros 2022, the Final

Yesterday, from approximately 4.20pm until its conclusion – joining millions of other Brits and television viewers all around the world – I watched the build-up and then the dramas of England’s epic 2-1 (after extra time) victory over Germany in the Final of the women’s Euros 2022 [...]

August 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Great Difference

Watching the Charity Shield between Liverpool and Manchester City I was struck by one big difference between the men and women’s game: pace. From the start Liverpool  maximised their pace on the right with Mo Salah and Trent Arnold. Conversely the movement is much slower in the women’s game [...]

July 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sporting this and that

On the way from St Andrews to Gleneagles I asked our driver to take us to Tannadice Road Dundee which houses not one but two football stadia 200 yards apart – these being the homes, respectively, of Dundee (Dens Park) and Dundee United (Tannadice). Dundee Utd under Jim McLean in the 1980s had [...]

July 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

Confronting the truth

One the recurring themes in the blog-posts to this organ – and indeed one of life’s ironies – is the sometimes puzzling relationship that human beings have between their own degree of self-awareness and their appreciation of how others may see them. In many respects the gap between [...]

July 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

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