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Even Groundhog Days are different

Watching your own parent travel into old age is a strange process, a bit like looking down the list of notable people’s birthdays in the Times or the Telegraph, being surprised at how old some of the icons of your youth have become, or even marvelling that they’re still alive … and then [...]

October 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sport and attrition

Sport is one of the most wonderful activities that human society has ever devised and regulated. Although I’ve being trying but struggling to identify other species capable of organising sporting contents – my presumption is that such games and leisure pastimes as animals, fish and birds [...]

October 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Working it all out

Whenever we contemplate life’s innumerable mysteries, the imaginative scope of the human brain soon reaches its outer limits and we have to resort to head-shaking wonder and quite possibly the issue of whether God exists or not and other similarly-profound matters. It is almost as if the more [...]

September 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

HIX/Browns Hotel

When I am lunching with somebody really interesting I much prefer a hotel restaurant. At some of the restaurants I have reviewed like La Petite Maison the tables are too tight for stimulating conversation or in Gaultier the waitering too obtrusive. In a luxury hotel I know I will get space and [...]

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tether-reaching

You’d think that once you’ve retired from the hurly-burly of working life you’re going to go one of two ways. If you’re the type that relies upon excitement, stimulation and the company of people, you may begin worrying that you’re going to lose out, get forgotten, lose touch and [...]

September 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

All aboard, me hearties!

Yesterday I made my ritual annual visit to the Southampton Boat Show. I’m not really a ‘yottie’ person myself but I know a lot of people who are and I’ve slipped into the habit of meeting up with four of them every year to have a look around and catch up over a fast food and beer lunch. I [...]

September 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The art of self-awareness

On Saturday I attended a family wedding in the Midlands. Only it turned out when we arrived that it wasn’t actually a wedding because that had taken place at least a week beforehand.  What we had actually been invited to [billed as a ‘Ceremony and Celebration’] might best be termed a summer [...]

September 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bloody Mary/bloody mindedness

Our charming and cheeky waitress Camille finessed the failure of my Bellini and Elodie’s Bloody Mary to arrive together by informing us she is going to the bar for “Ze Bluddie” right away. Over the 24 hours in Paris I would substitute this for bloody mindedness of which we [...]

September 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

For those who may have not the slightest interest in hip replacement operations, this is probably the moment to move on to another item. Today I am simply posting one of my irregular blogs on the subject because today marks the completion of nine weeks since I had mine. In terms of formal contacts [...]

September 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Paris

We travelled by Eurostar an experience I found greatly preferable to airplanes. Modern airports are so stressful, you are in the air for less than an hour and still have the journey from the airport to the city centre of Paris.  On the Eurostar the seats are comfy, the carriage service efficient, [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

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