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Bedroom success

One of my father’s party-pieces was to declare to anyone who would listen – as often as not, female attendees at family functions or drinks – that “All I know is, I haven’t had my fair share …” (by which he was referring to sex). I well remember the occasion when he deployed it at a [...]

August 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Grrrrrrr ….

Later today I shall be completing my original course of meds following my hip replacement operation in mid-July. Since emerging from hospital three days after going under the knife I have been wearing compression socks (designed to prevent deep vein thrombosis issues) most of the time and consuming [...]

August 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘art’ of political correctness

For good or ill, we live in a politically-correct world. I say that because it seems to me there are both plusses and minuses to asserting the right of groups of human beings not to be discriminated against – not least that, when you get down to the bottom line and specific matters of principle [...]

August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

On your marks – go!

Over the weekend I undertook a shopping expedition to a well-known supermarket not a million miles away from where I live. I’m not naturally a fan of shopping but – when it comes to food – I’ve gradually been trained over the years to become reasonably efficient at it. The only complication [...]

August 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Casa Brasil

The new Marina development which will ultimately comprise 821 apartments, some in a forty storey block, is up running with restaurants along the quayside. It’s quite controversial and certainly expensive with a one bedroom flat costing £461,000, two £530 000 and three nearly £800,000 which [...]

August 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Karamba!

I may be well into my seventh decade but I have rights and feelings just like any other human being. When you think about the Earth’s insignificance in the vastness of the entire universe and the apparent randomness of the chances of life ever evolving at all, let alone to where it has now, there [...]

August 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Polpo

Polpo is now a chain of restaurants owned by Russell Norman modelled on the Venetian bacero, a back street restaurant serving small plates and young Italian wines. It is not smart but the equivalent of the French restaurant du quarter a kind of Venetian tapas bar. Russell Norman started as a waiter [...]

August 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hip-watch: probably about three stars out of five so far

Next Friday afternoon it will have been four weeks since I had my hip replacement operation and just two weeks until – received opinion has it – most people who’ve had the procedure are advised that they can return to work. Having made spectacular progress in the first couple of weeks as a [...]

August 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another thing that goes around and comes around

When you’re in your sixties and one or both parents are still alive, the chances are that they’re close to or beyond the age of 90 – and therefore, inevitably, age-related issues are to the fore. The ironic aspect is that, when people ask me about – in my case – my father, I used to take [...]

August 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

In search of things past

My late mother used to have a saying that if you are too nostalgic about the past you mortgage your future. I’ve seen in life that one of the characteristics of a positive person is that he/she deletes the past and lives for the moment or the future. Thus it was then with a certain [...]

August 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

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