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Happy new Year from Cassius

In spite of his largely self created reputation as a Don Juan, there was a notable absence of any of his fancy women last night at the Master’s table . He did not even offer me a  sliver of his Cote de Boeuf . Happy New year to you and all your loved ones. [...]

January 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Oh yes we are!

Any Neaderthal males who doubt the validity of female sport on the grounds of lack of competitive spirit or testosterone-fuelled desire to come out on top should get their heads examined. Women are far the far more competitive sex, especially when it comes to other women. Having spent a lifetime in [...]

December 31, 2013 // 0 Comments

Scene from village life

Where my father lives, there are two villages close together and one rector covers both. This means that 8.00am communion, which my father habitually attends in order to avoid a sermon, alternates – week by week – between the two. My father was up at 6.30am this morning, a bit earlier than [...]

December 29, 2013 // 0 Comments

Smart Ass Xmas

As with many, Xmas for me has to be endured rather than enjoyed. My daughter in Yorkshire invites me but I don’t really want to leave London. I get invited to other families’ celebrations but I’m an uneasy guest. So a few years ago I invited a close friend and her son. This seems [...]

December 26, 2013 // 0 Comments

That’s the Big One over …

Phew – well, that’s another annual day of festive excess survived! The Stuarts converged upon Wandsworth shortly before 9.00am yesterday for more fun, dietary blow-outs and general mayhem. I had taken an early decision to ‘pass’ on any snacks before lunch, so sat by and watched as [...]

December 26, 2013 // 0 Comments

It happens, sometimes …

Just occasionally, and not often – when tuned to the television or radio broadcasting media – the viewer or listener gains the sense that he or she is being exposed to something ‘live’ on air which might possible later make a news story of its own. I’ve had two such examples in [...]

December 24, 2013 // 0 Comments

As the eleventh hour approaches

Monday 23rd December, 1255 hours: Chaos, a state with which the Stuarts are not unfamiliar, has now taken up full-blown residence as we enter Christmas week. So has my son Barry. I’m not implying that those two statements are necessarily connected, but you can draw your own conclusions, as I do [...]

December 23, 2013 // 0 Comments

Believe it or not

Robert Ripley, an American,  travelled to 201 countries and was a explorer, broadcaster and reporter. His life was a constant search for the unbelievable.  He coined the phrase ” believe it or not” and there are 30 of his odditoriums . Yesterday I visited one at Piccadilly Circus with [...]

December 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/the Guinea Grill

For many years we have been having the Danida lunch – Davina, Nicola and Daffers at the Guinea Grill . Nic, an interior designer who has gone into  refurbishing houses in the Fulham area, is maddeningly well preserved. Years running her own ad agency and the consequent liquid lunching that [...]

December 21, 2013 // 0 Comments

Reversing the effects of ageing

There is an interesting article on the website of The Guardian newspaper this morning, about research being done by Australian and US researchers into how effects of ageing might be held back or reversed – see here – THE GUARDIAN It brought to mind a conversation I had some years ago now at the [...]

December 20, 2013 // 0 Comments

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