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a la Colthard: Stanmer House

I call Sussex the new Rust Belt. Robert Tickler has acquired a pile on the cliffs by Roedean School, Alan Tanner is more downmarket with a bungalow he has bought in Worthing, whilst Nancy Bright Thompson has been a resident of East Sussex for many years. We all convened for tea at Stanmer House, [...]

May 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

A scan experience

Yesterday, because of my hip/groin problem, I went to hospital to have an MRI scan on my lower spine. I’m a veteran of MRI scans, in the sense I had one about two months ago on my hip. More recently I visited a new consultant who informed me I would probably be in line to have a hip replacement [...]

May 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all this

And now for something from the ‘We’re All Going To Hell In A Handcart’ department … A piece by George Monbiot that appears today on the website of THE [...]

May 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Why can’t a woman be like a man?

I’m sure my readers are familiar with this song from My Fair Lady, which I have always considered to be an accurate reflection of my views on the fair sex and probably accounts for my bachelor status. From time to time a woman tries hard to organise me domestically and the harder she tries [...]

May 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Search called off

I’m up early this morning and the sad news has just been confirmed on Radio Five Live that the US coastguards have called off their search for the four missing Brit sailors, having found the overturned hull of the Cheeky Rafiki and established that their lifeboat was never even deployed. Here’s [...]

May 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Against all odds

I return to this subject today, after a degree of soul-searching and a discussion with the editor of the National Rust, and I need to come clean as to why. Like most people, sometimes I hold views that might be controversial in certain company. But, being a wimp (or should that be ‘a normal human [...]

May 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The unvarnished truth

The depressing news that the US and Canadian coastguards’ search for the four experienced British sailors on board the 40 foot yacht Cheeki Rafiki, which got into difficulties returning to Britain from the Caribbean, was called off on Sunday evening continues to feature in the media. I have a [...]

May 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

A birthday lunch

Yesterday I attended an enjoyable family lunch in Knightsbridge hosted by my father on what would have my mother’s 90th birthday, had she still been alive. It might be churlish of me to remark that one aspect of the occasion that surprised me was how little of it was spent actually paying tribute [...]

May 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting our act together

We females are fully entitled to give men a whole lot of grief in our quest to be treated with respect but, as an old-fashioned feminist, I can sometimes also see the ironic and inconsistent side of our campaigning. No wonder men are left scratching their heads when – on the one hand [...]

May 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Recipe for a long life

According to reports in the media, the latest edition of the publication Psychological Science sets out the results of a survey conducted by researchers at Carleton University in Canada demonstrating that – at any stage of your life – having a purpose in life is a good strategy for having a [...]

May 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

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