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FISCHERS This Austrian style konditorei and part of the Wolseley group meets the high standards of service and food that the owners consistently deliver. Situated at the Regent’s Park end of Marylebone High Street where competition is fierce with the Orrery a few doors down it has a great [...]

April 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some call it progress

In this era of supposed gender equality it sometimes seems as if there’s been little progress in human relationships and ‘the battle of the sexes’. Here’s a link to an article by Barbara Ellen that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN Sometimes we like to kid ourselves that [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Being driven crazy

Six years ago I went on a holiday to Italy which involved flying in to Pisa, hiring a car to travel to our chosen villa and then – at the end of our stay – then driving to leave the car at, and fly home from, Rome airport. A couple of months later, out of the blue, I received a [...]

April 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of things to come

In an otherwise unremarkable day, yesterday I filled up my car with fuel and – in the course of doing errands and seeing people – I ended up in Bicester, twelve miles or so up the M40 beyond Oxford, visiting my daughter and her partner for a pizza meal and general catch-up. I’m not quite sure [...]

April 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Recalling memories from the past

Down at the coast, spending some time with my father, yesterday I came across an example of a common experience with elderly people, i.e. that their memory of recent events can be sketchy but their recall of events long ago pretty pin-sharp. My mother, who spent the last years of her life in a [...]

April 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Here we go again

It’s that time of year again – or at least I think it is. Yesterday my eagle eye spotted a piece in The Sunday Times on the subject of whether or not Sir Elton John was Britain’s most generous philanthropist, based on ‘latest figures’, which suggested to me that we will shortly be hit [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some celebrations are always worth it

With the celebrations to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare now flowering into their full majesty, I suspect there are millions of literary and theatrical philistines around the world like me who going to enjoy and benefit enormously from the surfeit of media articles, [...]

April 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Living in the present

Writing as someone whose degree of contact with the ways of the modern world is relatively limited and simultaneously – as technological progress continues at its breakneck speed – decreasing exponentially, I am watching from the welcome relative safety of the side lines as the generations [...]

April 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Out on the water

A couple of days ago I popped off to the south coast with my son Barry, who is in the UK on a brief visit. When he first arrived I put him on my car’s insurance, since when he’s been driving around the country in it, having medicals, and meeting up with business contacts and personal friends. [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Everyone’s at it (“oh no they’re not!”)

It seems close to a truism to state that every generation lives within the prevailing sexual laws, morals and social niceties of its own era. Take Britain for example – and my apologies for the imminent sweeping generalisations – King Henry VIII plainly ‘put it about a bit’. In the [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

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