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An expedition into the future

Yesterday I ventured out to a PC World superstore in order to buy a new free-standing keyboard for use with my laptop. I’ve always found the ‘sit up and beg’ aspect of built-in laptop keyboards less than user-friendly for my personal ‘two-fingered’ style, unchanged since I first learned [...]

June 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

Birthday party

Notwithstanding my busy schedule of buying and selling two properties next week, which necessitates putting the poppets on the back burner, there was no way I was missing Jamie’s 6th birthday. This was held at the Pizza Express in Wimbledon and six of his little friends plus his aunt and [...]

June 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

The perils of putting your head above the parapet

For the benefit of anyone who has been away from the UK on holiday, or otherwise rendered incapable of following media controversies, there has been a bit of a belter running within the sisterhood fraternity for the past week or so. Kirstie Allsopp – whose full range of reasons for being regarded [...]

June 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Once upon a time …

My first-ever WW1 battlefield tour, over two decades ago now, began with joining a coach at Victoria Station which departed for a Channel ferry and then on towards Ypres. Our guide, a former military man who was rarely without a gin-and-tonic in one hand and a cigarette in the other, specialised in [...]

June 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Art of Zen

Yesterday, having attended to a variety of domestic matters, I set off to stay with my father at the coast for the weekend. Having finally – and reluctantly, yet with a Godzilla-sized post-act sense of relief – sacked his octogenarian gardener ten months ago on account of decrepitude, my [...]

June 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

No easy solution

Earlier this week, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the home minister responsible for law and order – one Babulal Gaur – publicly uttered his horrific opinion that the crime of rape is only committed if it is reported to the police: “This is a social crime which depends on men and [...]

June 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

Once more to the breach

After my MRI scan last week, yesterday I returned to hospital for steroid/anaesthetic jab on my troublesome hip which contains the beginnings of osteoarthritis. It’s a general fact of life – well, mine anyway – that, faced with undergoing some sort of novel medical examination or procedure, [...]

June 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Internet v High St

A few months ago there was an interesting piece on the Rust about the internet’s threat to the High St. May I be permitted to contribute to this? The main street of Kemp Town or Camp Town, as it is known for its preponderance of gays, is a typically affluent shopping street of [...]

June 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

A marketing experience

Although my daughter took her first degree in marketing and I know several people who work or worked in advertising, I am neither expert in the theories behind persuading people to buy things they didn’t know they wanted, nor a fan of the means by which they do so. For me, television commercials [...]

June 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

A stone setting to remember

Yesterday I attended the stone setting of two members of our family. In the Jewish religion the funeral takes place as soon as possible after death and is therefore rushed. The stone is laid and the grave consecrated normally one year later. It’s not like a Christian memorial service but [...]

June 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

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