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The new fitness campaign starts here

Yesterday, as I drove back down the M1 in intermittent showers, I was about to congratulate myself on what great progress I was making when, without warning, all vehicles going my way were diverted off the motorway. I soon learned from the radio that some accident or another had caused the police [...]

January 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Not waving, but drowning

I hold to the view that one of the markers of advancing age is a gradual but inevitable disconnect from advances in modern technology. We grow up gleefully embracing them until we reach adulthood – enjoy a period of ten to fifteen years when we are pretty much ‘up to date’ – and then [...]

January 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

The right call

When was the last time you picked up the phone to call a friend? Or, put it another way, how many calls do you make in proportion to texts and emails sent? Yesterday evening, as is my wont, I was doing the Telegraph crossword, with a malt whisky and a William Kempe CD playing Beethoven in the [...]

January 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

Keeping a perspective

My husband, despite all efforts and honest intentions to the contrary, is an unreconstructed old school chauvinist. He refuses to go shopping with me, describes to my occasional woman-to-woman phone chats with girlfriends as ‘wittering’ and only yesterday cited the magazine shelves of WH Smiths [...]

January 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sometimes you couldn’t make it up

Apparently, some 1,058 people – including 40 Brits – have made a shortlist of candidates for a one-way mission to Mars in 2025 being organised by as Dutch organisation called Mars One. It seems that final selections will be the subject of as reality television show process – see [...]

January 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

And, with a touch of irony …

‘Shorely schome mishtake? …’ – as Sean Connery and/or Private Eye might possibly say. Media reports today – Friday 3rd January 2014 – detail the results of a survey by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) that suggest rates of obesity in developing [...]

January 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Going through the tube

Earlier today I travelled to an off-shoot of the NHS in order to have an MRI scan on my right hip/thigh, this resulting from an injury I suffered on a golf course. After the round concerned, I arrived home having ‘stiffened up’ and beset by various aches and pains, all anticipated and perfectly [...]

January 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Buon nuovo anno from Stefano

Auguri ( greetings) from Pattaya Beach, Thailand where Umberto and I have decamped for a holiday. Florence is not  a Xmas city and we have the winter break in our football. I receive the occasional despairing text from Alan Tanner. In Italy the sporting director/head coach system is universal, but [...]

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Happy New Year from Nancy Bright- Thompson

We were rather cut off by the storms in East Sussex so we had a quiet dinner with our neighbours. Polly, our horse dealing friend from Brighton, came over during the day and spent some time in the sanctuary. She is one of these bright young women that always lifts our spirits, but she was seeing in [...]

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Happy New Year from Daphne Colthard

Traditionally I make the New Year’s Eve dinner and Ollie supplies the wines. Whilst the boys got wasted  we had 4 couples over. The Gevrey Chambertin  did generate a certain stirring  in Daffers but Ollie was snoring away whilst I reprised a wild New Years Eve with another Oliver, Oliver [...]

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

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