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You live and learn

Yesterday I went to my little tame garage man around the corner [definition: the excellent old-school mechanic who, unlike all main dealers, doesn’t charge a fortune and, if I call in extremis, will drop any/everything he’s doing to ‘sort me out’] for my car to have what amounts to its [...]

December 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Olivo

Can it be 24 years ago that Olivo in Elccleston  St first opens its doors? It soon became a groundbreaking restaurant serving Sardinian cuisine and quite different from the “in” Italian restaurant with signed photos of the stars, 12 forms of veal escalope, insalate tricalore and highly [...]

December 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Cause for concern

The subject of paedophilia has always been as troubling one for human society for all sorts of reasons – even over the past week boxer Tyson Fury has caused a media storm by making public un-PC comments about a number of things, including homosexuality. In his case, as I understand it, weight was [...]

December 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Why am I surprised it’s coming to this ..?

As an ‘oldie’ I’m very conscious that modern technology if not life, is leaving me behind, albeit the fact doesn’t particularly bother me. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that I appreciated, while completing the survey of best/favourite songs that my brother occasionally conducts, that [...]

December 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stuff

Last week I met up with a lady of my regular acquaintance – a great lover of animals, especially dogs, almost to the point where she prefers them to humans – who in passing remarked that it was now over a month since she had to take the second of her pooches to the vet to have him put down. [...]

December 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting out what you put in

After a period during which my arthritic hip and engagements diary have together conspired to prevent me having the time or indeed inclination to maintain my fitness campaign, I returned to the fray (and the gym) last week. It has been a bit of a ‘curate’s egg’ of a start … In the build-up [...]

December 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Stress testing my regulars

Just as this week banks have been stress-tested we restaurant reviewers should visit regularly those establishments we recommend to ensure there is consistency of service and standard. This I did this week. I stayedat my favourite hotel in London, the Marylebone. Once the boxy Clifton Ford, now [...]

December 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, I suppose you live and learn …

If I sound shocked I supposed I shouldn’t be, really. Being in what I consider the final third of my life span I know that my kids evidently regard me as beyond help in terms of modern life and technology but I have always thought that some aspects of the human condition remain universal and [...]

December 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dear old pals

Yesterday I enjoyed the company of three old pals, two of whom I know from university and one from school. As Dr Johnson so rightly observed “As you go,through life the only thing you cannot obtain is an old friend” yet such friendships fall by the wayside through lack of regular [...]

December 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Enough to drive you nuts

If you asked me to sit down and produce a list of the things that can potentially annoy me about the modern world, or that have annoyed me all my life (I don’t wish to blame everything on the 21st Century), then contractors, workmen or even private postal delivery men would be right at the top [...]

December 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

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