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On arrival at Brighton station yesterday I decided to walk to the Centre for some shopping. Imagine my surprise in nearby Trafalgar Road to see the familiar corpulent figure of Bob Tickler, small boy in hand, entering the toy museum. I joined the party to appreciate a museum devoted to model [...]

January 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Waiting for something to happen

I have owned my current car for nearly three years – it is a large SUV bought on a friend’s recommendation as a means of dealing with my chronic bad back that might have been caused or exacerbated by getting in and out of my previous low-slung A3 hatchback. I cannot be sure – and will never [...]

January 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

The start of another one

You can call me a curmudgeonly old git if you like, but last night I avoided all special plans and went to bed at 9.10pm both because it was my bedtime and I was tired. Ironically, I then woke up with a start, heard on Radio Five Live that it was 11.40pm, and decided to get up and see the New Year [...]

January 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

New Year at Hotel du Vin Brighton

It was Daphne Colthard who suggested I saw the New  Year in at the Hotel du Vin. I am not one for the revelries of a new year and would be quite happily tucked up in bed by 11 than  pay the high prices that restaurants charge for dinner on this night.  However I have my godson and his mother [...]

January 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

To London and back

Staying in the country with my parents for the duration of the festive season, yesterday I was nevertheless obliged by prior arrangement to journey to London for a meeting which had been set up some time ago, before I knew where I would be spending Christmas (if you see what I mean). The meeting [...]

December 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Rail chaos

In my own minor way I can contribute to the debate on the breakdown of railway travel. I was travelling from Bournemouth to Brighton to spend a few days with Ivan Conway before we both went today to Fulham v Brighton. Like all windows cleaners I am used to getting up early as we often start work at [...]

December 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Xmas Day

I was quite prepared for spending Xmas day on my own for all the sympathy. The religious significance of Xmas is long gone and replaced by a consumer frenzy and false family bonhomie. However at the last moment my brother expressed a wish to come to the South Coast and I was only too pleased to [...]

December 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Ah well …

I’m fairly confident that I notched another milestone on the route to senility yesterday. Having travelled some way in the morning in advance of our Christmas meal with relatives, we handed over our presents and then together set off en masse across London to spend an hour raising a pre-lunch [...]

December 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Greetings from festive land!

I hope you and yours are about to have a terrific festive period, enjoy your reunions with your friends, families and loved ones, eat and drink far too much, fall asleep after your lunch – or main – meal and generally have a good time. Yesterday (Christmas Eve) my traditional ritual of [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Too late for me, I fear!

Two potentially positive stories relating to dementia are circulating in the media this week. The first, based upon research conducted at the Rockefeller University in New York, is suggesting that Riluzole – a drug currently used to treat forms of motor neurone disease by preventing connections [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

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