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Here we go again

As anyone of a certain seniority will testify, modern life is constantly evolving – sometimes for the better, sometime not so – and wrestling with it all is part of the human condition. At my stage of life I’m always on red alert to avoid being pigeon-holed as a dog-in-the-manger-style moaner [...]

July 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Better check it out?

One of the difficulties of the ageing process is assessing whether one has a serious ailment or a transient meaningless pain. Recently I noted a sharpish intermittent pain above the heart. Was this the start of a coronary or nothing of consequence?  Had a life of rich food clogging up the arteries [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all that

That’s it for me. Fed up with the EU Referendum result and the political crisis that has inevitably followed, I’m off. I’m sufficiently worldly-wise that I anticipated some, but not all, of the fall-out that occurred after the Brexit vote. It always seemed to me that if you call a referendum [...]

July 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Feeling good about giving stuff up

Thinking back now, I think it was about January 2009 – not long after my fifty-seventh birthday – that I stopped worrying about modern technology. Or as the young of today might more accurately put it, finally gave up, let go, and stopped trying to keep up with it. The vehicle involved in [...]

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Somme thoughts

My grandfather won his MC on the Somme in September 1916 and I spent yesterday, the occasion of the centenary of that Battle’s opening day (in terms of casualties the greatest catastrophe in British military history), in the company of my father. Mr grandfather – by then a Brigadier – was [...]

July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

A brush with the medical profession

Currently billeted with my 90 year-old father at the coast, I was out yesterday afternoon and returning to base when I was called from his house by She Who Must Be Obeyed (‘SWMBO’). Where was I? As it happens, I was just passing the church – less than half a mile away and counting. Well, [...]

June 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

More internet exasperation

On my return from Cornwall I received a letter from the Single Discount Review Team of my local council querying my single occupation. I will admit to the odd staying guest but as far as I was aware the only two occupants were and are myself and my cat. I put this in the Polly Pile for her to deal [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Family Occasion

Yesterday I went to 2 family celebrations: the first was a form of orthodox Jewish cocktail party, normally after the religious service called a kiddish, given by my niece to celebrate her latest child and a smaller family lunch given by the wife of my nephew. A big difference between Gentiles [...]

June 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Resolution

Readers might be surprised that in a day of upheaval with myriad of challenges and maximum turbulence I should be writing on the ongoing problems of my tv reception but I don’t think I can add anything useful to the debate except it may not be over. Ireland and Denmark had second referenda on [...]

June 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Exasperation

One of the issues we often address on the Rust is the interference of the Internet and automatic voice response into customer relations. Yesterday I got no Sky signal which I attributed to the adverse weather. In such moments I fiddle with the cables loosely referred to as rebooting which normally [...]

June 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

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