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He’s made a big mistake

Right – that does it! It’s war! Yesterday I went up to the health club again in the mid-afternoon. I looked at my ‘watch’-type thing that tells me not only the time, but also how many steps I’ve taken and calories I’ve burned off each day and it said “1613” (i.e. 4.13pm) as I [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Triumph, at last!

Yesterday, over a week after I last visited, I went to the health club in the late afternoon. Having devised a fitness plan consisting of ‘the bleedin’ obvious’ (‘Eat better and less, plus take exercise’), my failure to go to the gym for the above-mentioned length of time had been [...]

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

It’s just the way it is

    ‘No one in this world, so far as I know … has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people’ (H.L. Mencken – journalist/social commentator). ‘There’s a sucker born every minute’ (P.T. Barnum – showman/promoter). The above [...]

April 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Confronting cataracts

Yesterday I saw a leading ophthalmologist for a final review prior to two cataract operations. Over the past couple of years I have seen a man in London of some eminence but as I have moved to the coast there are clearly practical benefits in having the procedure done locally. I was trying to sort [...]

April 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

What comes around

Six or seven years ago now I sat next to Bob, a friend of my father’s, at a dinner following a public talk given by the author of a new book. I hadn’t seen him for at least eighteen months and so we had quite a lot of catching up to do. Towards the end of said meal he asked me if I knew what [...]

April 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Falling off the pace

Ten days ago I came across a couple of signs that modern life is leaving me behind. I first received a communication from DVLA in Swansea announcing that my car tax disc was due to be renewed at the end of the month. Actually, hold the phone, that isn’t quite true. My tax disc wasn’t due for [...]

April 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: the Ritz restaurant

Twice a year I have lunch with a business magnate I have known for over 40 years. The protocol  is that he gives me lunch in the autumn and I reciprocate in January but what with his busy life the dates get delayed. So yesterday was my “winter” turn which arrived on a glorious spring [...]

April 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

‘Over there’

Yesterday I had occasion to join my fellow Rusters Henry Elkins and Guy Danaway on what they had described in advance as “one of their raids into Occupied France …”. As I understand it, these are effectively reconnaissance trips undertaken in advance of one of their guided tours of the WW1 [...]

April 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Why haven’t I ever been asked?

I don’t know why, but my eye was drawn to this article by Jane Ussher which appears upon the website of The Independent today – see here – THE [...]

April 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Confronting the past

Yesterday I popped down to visit my father – at whose gaff huge quantities of extended-family photographs and mementos are stored – to rendezvous with my daughter, who was on a mission to seek out image of herself and her brother as young kids. This was further to her aunt’s engagement of a [...]

April 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

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