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Trousers round my ankles again …

The world’s a tough enough place anyway, but of course the mass market for smartphones, social media and ‘keeping in touch’ 24/7 provides an easy breeding ground for all kinds of fraudulent behaviour. I like to think I’m pretty suspicious – I regularly put the phone down on anyone trying [...]

January 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

On the front-line

You’re only as old as you feel … or so they say … so naturally all matters regarding sexual relationships and dating are as interesting to those of us aged over sixty as they are to anyone else. In that context, here’s a fun article by Naomi McAuliffe that appears today on [...]

January 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

A trip to the Midlands

For reasons of mutual interest which need not concern my readers, yesterday I collected my brother in Putney in south-west London at 9.00am and drove to Rugby School in Warwickshire in order to watch a school rugby match between Rugby and Sedbergh. Within less than a minute of setting off from my [...]

January 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Food for thought

In the wake of the Parisian Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket Jihadist massacres/shootouts and the demonstration rallies in France yesterday, both ‘serious’ journalism and social media are awash with a wide range of conflicting opinions as to what happened and why, and how the [...]

January 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Rugby still has medical work to do

Last night I began watching the Gloucester versus Saracens Premiership rugby match being relayed live from Kingsholm by BT Sport. After a while, not fully engaged by its entertainment and having other domestic distractions I went to bed …and  thereby missed by a few minutes the sight of Ben [...]

January 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Freedom and balls

Even as I type this at 10.45am on Friday 9th January, the apparent final end to the pursuit of the Jihadists who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre is playing out in the north-east suburbs of Paris in France. These are very difficult times for amateur bloggers such as myself the world over. [...]

January 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

You just never know, do you?

Yesterday, out of the blue, I received a telephone call from someone who would definitely qualify as (in my terms) as a ‘blast from the past’ – and I don’t mean romantically. Over the course of perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes, we caught up on our respective family and other news. I’m [...]

January 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ready, Steady, Go!

For most of us, after the excesses of the festive period, the New Year brings attempts in various degrees of determination to ‘make that change’ (whatever it, or they, might be). I’m sure that many follow my own traditional routine of hatching my list of ‘improvement’ goals anywhere from [...]

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

Thank goodness, it’s over

Yesterday two friends dropped round. One has a successful online counselling service, the other a property services business but is a significant fund raiser for charity through her sponsored running. The runner breathed a sigh of relief and I am  sure spoke for many when she said she was [...]

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

A tricky subject

Today (Monday 5th January) the media has been full of the storm surrounding the potential signing by Oldham Athletic of footballer and convicted rapist Ched Evans. I’ve been listening to Radio Five Live most of the day and it’s been featuring the issues arising – and the ongoing developments [...]

January 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

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