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A life on the ocean wave

Earlier this year some neighbours of my father went on a ‘wrong way around the world’ sea cruise trip to New Zealand before eventually making the return journey by air. If memory serves, the sea cruise leg of their odyssey took them seven or eight weeks. Some time after they got back [...]

July 4, 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

Ooops …

You know how – no matter how impeccable our DNA, upbringings or social manners – sometimes we find ourselves saying something appallingly inappropriate, insensitive or crass … and then afterwards either genuinely ‘find ourselves in hot water’, or get mocked and teased about it by others, [...]

July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Eyes Have It

Yesterday I visited my eye consultant as a follow up after a minor procedure to remove a membrane. The whole procedure conducted by a laser a few weeks ago lasted only a few moments and was painless. I reflected on the developments of eye surgery in my lifetime. My grandfather had a detached retina [...]

June 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / The Jetty, Brighton Harbour Hotel

Too many restaurant critics confine their review to openings. A restaurant then is on its best behaviour and it may take a bit of time to bed in. Also regular diners tend to have their favourites and are not normally so adventurous as to try a new one. Add to this, the PR company of a new [...]

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of what’s coming further down the line?

For my sins – actually it was a privilege – yesterday I accompanied my 91 year old father to a ‘Fifty Years On’ reunion lunch at his old university college at which, having ‘gone up’ in 1943 at the age of eighteen under a WW2 scheme whereby chaps going into the services could do a year [...]

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

What happens when you turn your back …

Having returned from my luxury three-week river cruise down the Danube, during which my iPad broke down and I couldn’t be bothered to seek out alternative means of keeping in touch with world events, still less those occurring at the Rust, I was somewhat surprised to discover that ‘the [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

The charging of service

According to Wikipedia, it is believed that in Western European culture the practice of giving a tip or gratuity began around 1600 – the first reference to ‘giving a gratuity’ is apparently specifically dated to 1706 – and ‘tip’ was probably first adapted for use in a slang context from [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Marrocco

I have often complained that the British gastronomic tradition lacks the concept of the “restaurant du quarter” (neighbourhood restaurant) unlike France. So in this regard I am delighted to recommend Marrocco on the esplanade at Hove. Old man Renato Marrocco came to England in 1962. [...]

June 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Modern life

Although occasions when your author ejects a mouthful’s worth of his breakfast cereal across the room first thing in the morning are thankfully as rare as hen’s teeth, I have to record that one such occurred yesterday shortly after my butler had brought me my copy of The Times newspaper. [...]

June 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

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