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Well, it got to me

Sometimes with amusing tales you had to have been there to ‘get the joke’ and sometimes things which tickle your personal funny-bone just don’t seem that funny to others. Nevertheless, for what it’s worth, here’s a true story that appealed to me yesterday. I was speaking to a lady who [...]

July 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

Back in the old routine

Yesterday I made my first visit to the gym since being given the all clear to resume physical exercise after my steroid jab for the osteoarthritis in my hip. It was not a success. The cardio-vascular room, which overlooks the swimming pool, has a bank of five televisions high on the wall, so that [...]

July 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Reflections

One of the plusses of blogging is the freedom it affords. On any day of your choosing you can bequeath the world your musings upon either some great issue of global importance or, if the mood takes you, some petty detail of your personal life. The ability to make the arrogant assertion that [...]

July 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Sam on the Beach: Polkerris

Whilst I am sure many of my readers have heard of Rick Stein – certainly if he had his way – few I suspect know Sam on the Beach. Yet if you gave me the option of the eating at either, I would go for Sam’s. To get there Melanie Gay and I had to walk along the coastal walk from [...]

July 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Seafood Restaurant Padstow

In my teens I would always enjoy a weekend away with the yachties in Rock Cornwall, when the expression “boom over” had a whole new meaning!! One evening a terribly dishy ex-boxer in the meat trade picked me up on the Upper Deck club and a bit of rough after an excess of hoorays was [...]

July 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Money talks

I’ve been staying with my father at the coast this week. It has been just like old times – in excellent weather, sitting on his terrace, he had been holding court and telling his stories, most of which his family have heard many times before. There’s little doubt that one of the symptoms [...]

July 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

That’s it – I’ll get me coat

The advance of female equality and emancipation knows no bounds – and not always in a good way. We have all experienced the phenomenon of enjoying too much of a good thing. For example, if you were an ice cream fan and suddenly got locked in an ice cream shop overnight, within two or three [...]

July 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Well that’s a relief!

Today I present another short bulletin from my current medical issues, following my return to a hospital clinic to see a consultant about my osteoarthritis-affected hip. There’s a media story doing the rounds at the moment about the ‘scandal’ of NHS hospitals making over £1 million per annum [...]

July 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Inconvenient truths

I’m confused. Are there any absolute facts in this world? Those with religious beliefs appear to think so, though of course it depends somewhat upon which set of religious beliefs they possess because – of the full range – so many of them are incompatible. I refer not just to the differences [...]

July 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sometimes things make you pause and think

Last night I returned to the UK after an exhausting three-day visit to France and Belgium. I had been overdue a trip to Flanders, but this one was deliberately organised to coincide with, and take in, an annual ceremony at Verrières, about 25 kilometres south-east of Poitiers, celebrating a [...]

July 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

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