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The bookies always win

Having gone to bed exceptionally early last night – embarrassment prevents me revealing exactly when – I was inevitably up again at a near-record time. It was either in the twenty to thirty minutes in bed before falling into slumber, or in the similar period as I gradually ‘came [...]

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

A visit to the barber

Yesterday I made my monthly visit to the hairdresser. I have been using the same guy for nearly two years. I would not describe him as a friend but we get on well and I am surprised by the level and amount of his confidences. It would be wrong to go into too much detail but as a student of [...]

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaction blues

Rape is a ghastly, sickening crime and one that many surveys and studies testify may be wildly under-reported not just in the UK but around the world. However, the recent acquittal of (now) Chesterfield professional footballer Ched Evans in his re-trial continues to produce a great deal of [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Card troubles

It’s a rare occasion when one makes the BBC 6 O’ Clock television news, as I did last night. Or think I may have done. Here’s a link to the report concerned – as covered on the website of the – DAILY MAIL Yesterday late morning, as is my fate on a Friday, I was sent out to purchase the [...]

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Plus ca change….The more you are deranged

After seeing the play First House last week I was struck by certain similarities to our own times. There was a referendum on Europe, the start of Militant Tendency and industrial  strife. Those of us who remember  the decade of the miner’s strike, 3 day week and internal dislocation will [...]

October 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

The bank of mum and dad

There was an interesting programme on pensions to the extent that anything on pensions can be interesting. See link here – PENSIONS The programme informed that that it’s no longer sustainable to pay out on pensions because of the longevity issue hence the pensionable age is being pushed [...]

October 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

That’s it – I’m off!

Further proof that I am being hounded by Big Brother government authorities emerged over the weekend when out of the blue I received a personal notice of yet another alleged speeding incident caught by CCTV camera in west London. On the day in question I was pootling along on my way to a wedding in [...]

October 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /24 St Georges

One of the interesting aspects of a restaurant is how it deals with something unusual even a crisis. Thus it was that on Saturday a French girlfriend and I went to 24 St Georges in Kemp Town, Brighton. I had been there before and considered it okay but nothing brilliant. It’s a restaurant set [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

A family golf day

Yesterday I attended the 32nd annual golf tournament of a family I know well. It’s always played at Royal Ashdown Forest, a natural and beautiful course with no bunkers. Some 20 years ago I went there with my father. It proved to be one of his great golfing moments, perhaps even one of his [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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