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A Trip to Cornwall

Our readers might find this difficult to believe but we do not confer before our postings so it’s entirely possible to write on the same theme. Today I am touching on a subject aired yesterday, namely road travel. It’s that time of year again when the Rusters make their annual [...]

July 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A wayward sense of direction

Any time I jump into a car and go anywhere I am accompanied by an going potential disaster in the form of a location and/or directional cock-up. I don’t know why this happens – folklore has it either that women are hopeless map readers compared to men, or (alternatively) both sexes are equally [...]

July 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Getting from here to there

This week the UK government – and I think now also the French equivalent – have announced that from 2040 it will no longer be possible to buy a new fossil-fuel (petrol or diesel) powered car. Since then climate change and ecological campaigners have attacked the decision as ‘too little and [...]

July 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Wine tasting and Decanter awards

Yesterday evening I attended my third event of the Sussex Wine School. At this the instructor Johnny brought six of his own wines to be tasted blind and another attendee contributed two. Once again two young ladies to my left and opposite, sat down at the long table and began texting. A wine [...]

July 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

On fatherhood and advice

From time to time I reflect upon life generally and the fact that human beings continue to learn new things throughout their existence. As a parent this inevitably includes a constantly-evolving relationship with one’s offspring. I’ve blogged before about feeling humbled (in a good way) upon [...]

July 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The French Riviera: a literary guide for travellers/Ted Jones

Travel writing is not one of my preferred reading genres though I recognize the merit of Eric Newby, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and the humour of Bill Bryson. Travel for me is visual and personal not objective and written. However I do enjoy a book on the characters that lived in a region I know well [...]

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

New television series to be launched

I wish to make it plain from the outset of this piece that I personally have not seen a single trailer or even episode of Love Island, the current ‘cause célèbre’ of the reality TV genre – I didn’t even know which channel it was broadcast upon until I googled the answer just now (it was [...]

July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Never heard of him – but worth a peak …

Yesterday, confined to quarters miles from anywhere in the countryside, I received a cryptic text from an old school pal: “You must immediately read this article!” it read, followed by (an unusual achievement in his case) a properly-captured and applied ‘link’ to a piece by [...]

July 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ The Jetty, Chichester Harbour

For many years Murrays at the Ship Hotel was the destination of choice for a meal at Chichester. It has now been taken over by the Harbour chain that operate boutique hotels along the south coast. It’s had a total makeover with the familiar mustard banquettes of the Brighton Harbour. It keeps [...]

July 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hands up anyone who’s worth a hill of beans

Like most people I came across yesterday, I was fascinated to learn the details of ‘who gets what’ when the BBC published (in bands) the salaries of its presenters and actors who earn 150,000 pounds sterling or more and yet at the same time I also had misgivings about the disclosures. The first [...]

July 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

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