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It depends what you think is important

There is an article by Fiona Macrae featured today on the website of the Daily Mail which suggests that continuing to have sex into your eighth decade sharpens your brainpower and improves the memory – see here – OLDER SEX Normally I dismiss media pieces like this as fillers deployed off a [...]

March 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping in touch

It sounds an obvious thing to state, but we are constantly learning things throughout our lives. As we age beyond fifty or so, it probably serves to remind ourselves occasionally that, if we ever stop learning stuff, it’s likely to be the case that we are beginning on the slippery road to being [...]

March 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Women and danger

In terms of female equality, now decades beyond the clichés of John Gray’s Women Are From Venus, Men Are From Mars, in recent times there have been media discussions of the effects of women’s menstrual cycles upon sporting performance and the menopause upon women’s working [...]

March 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Le Caprice

One of my recurrent themes is that enjoyable dining is not just about the food and wine. Service, ambience, value, location, value all contribute to the experience too. Integral to service and ambience is someone who is properly in charge and for more years that I can remember Jesu has been at the [...]

February 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Baroness Pratt of Writtle

Baroness Pratt of Writtle passed away this month. I met her only the once but I recall this vividly. At the time, it would have been 20 years ago, I was a Visitng Professor of Middlesex Unversity and on their management board. I was invited to a dinner there and sat opposite the chancellor Baroness [...]

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Back to good old Blighty

Yesterday I returned to the UK and almost immediately wished that I could have turned on my heel and booked myself a one-way ticket back to Portugal. THE FLIGHT By chance I had booked a seat less than ten rows back on the right hand side from the front of my budget airline flight. When I [...]

February 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

A visit to the doctor

My late father, a private doctor and GP, was a mild non-confrontational man. Once though a young strident cousin of my mother was holding forth that private medicine was unethical in a democratic society and should be abolished. My father turned to her and said “You have as much chance of [...]

February 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Let us celebrate sporting skill

Day 2 of my visit to Portugal began with a visit to see the state of Barry’s yacht now about 40% of the way through its refit. After about an hour of taking a lot of pictures and doing my best to ask intelligent questions I was dismissed and drove Barry’s Renault Megane hire car back to the [...]

February 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sojourn in Portugal

Yesterday I flew to Faro in Portugal from Gatwick at the crack of dawn (actually possibly even before it) in order to spend a couple of days with my son Barry. I’m a keen people-watcher but don’t particularly enjoy crowds, which makes travelling via a low-budget, hair-shirt, airline something [...]

February 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Admitting what you’re thinking

A confession. Yesterday I was watching the television reports of the three schoolgirls from Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets – apparently their headmaster says that there is no evidence they were radicalised by anything related to his establishment, meanwhile some pundits are attacking [...]

February 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

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