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Surveys may come and go

We’re at the back end of what is known as the media ‘silly season’, but there still seems to be some life yet in the dying embers. Hot on the heels of this week’s revelations that bacon, sausages – and all the other foods that for three decades and more have been blamed for causing the [...]

August 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

A gem of a day

Yesterday, responding to an invitation, I travelled to a village cricket game on the south coast in glorious sunshine – a journey sadly beset during its last four miles by having to take my place among a gridlocked stream of day-trippers and/or holiday makers on their way to the seaside. I’ve [...]

August 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

And here’s a ‘V.A.T. on the house’ from me, Arfur …

Way back in the 1980s and early 1990s, though I never really bothered with it once Terry McCann (played by Dennis Waterman) had departed, because – well – Arfur without Terry wasn’t the same was it? – Thames Television’s series Minder was a staple of my recreational [...]

August 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

China Latino/Nottingham

Douglas Heath contacted me for advice on Nottingham restaurants as he is up there for the first two days of the test. I was only too happy to oblige and went one step further. As I have cousins who farm near Newark I said I would come to the City of Robin Hood (and lace) to accompany him. I chose [...]

August 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

The nuts and bolts of sexual attraction

I believe that it was that film star Paul Newman, well-known for his marital fidelity to second wife Joanne Woodward, who first coined the immortal phrase “Why go out for a hamburger when you have a steak at home?” but recent media reports, here in the form of Christopher [...]

August 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Family complications

Yesterday – Sunday – my sister rang shortly after 10.00am. “Have you spoken to Dad today?” “No – why do you ask? “Because I’ve tried to call him this morning, he’s not answering …” In another situation one might have been referencing déjà vu, or possibly the [...]

August 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Pride weekend

This weekend is Gay Pride at Brighton and some 20,000 visitors will descend on Brighton for it. Already the rainbow bunting is out in full for 48 hours of revelry and gay proclamation. It starts with a procession from Hove Lawns to Preston Park where there is a disco and will finish up in Kemptown [...]

August 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Losing it (or not?)

When you get to my age you have to be constantly on the look-out for signs that you’re going ga-ga. Stuff like getting to the top of the stairs and then forgetting why it was you went up there; being unable to find your house/car keys; forgetting someone’s name as you’re introducing them to [...]

July 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ken Lo’s Memories of China

When I was a young tennis player, quite competent, in the school side, I had a game with Ken Lo, well into his seventies. I thought my fitness would tell but Ken, stationed on the base line, had me running hither and thither and won 6-0, 6-0. Ken was a polymath: a Cambridge graduate in English, a [...]

July 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting it on

At the weekend, amidst my domestic chores (including a ‘rubbish run’ to the nearby municipal tip), I happened to catch a small segment of BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live, presented by Sian Williams, which follows The Andrew Marr Show. The springboard to the discussion at hand – on the subject of [...]

July 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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