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Reaching the end of the road

Yesterday I went to the south coast to join a lunch at which my aged father was present. During the ten days since I had last seen him he had an ‘incident’ in which, in seeking to remove his car from a car park, he drove quite hard into another car by somehow getting confused and accidentally [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some call it progress

In this era of supposed gender equality it sometimes seems as if there’s been little progress in human relationships and ‘the battle of the sexes’. Here’s a link to an article by Barbara Ellen that appears today upon the website of – THE GUARDIAN Sometimes we like to kid ourselves that [...]

April 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Out on the water

A couple of days ago I popped off to the south coast with my son Barry, who is in the UK on a brief visit. When he first arrived I put him on my car’s insurance, since when he’s been driving around the country in it, having medicals, and meeting up with business contacts and personal friends. [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Everyone’s at it (“oh no they’re not!”)

It seems close to a truism to state that every generation lives within the prevailing sexual laws, morals and social niceties of its own era. Take Britain for example – and my apologies for the imminent sweeping generalisations – King Henry VIII plainly ‘put it about a bit’. In the [...]

April 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

A ‘nothing’ day with something

Yesterday promised and then delivered bright warm sunshine and I awoke facing nothing more than an in-tray full of correspondence, perhaps a phone-call or two to make and then maybe a trip to the health club at some point in the late afternoon. Then two telephone calls caused things to change. The [...]

April 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

When push comes to shove …

Sometimes in life – and in the world’s press or social media – it becomes a case of ‘You couldn’t make it up’. Over the past fortnight I’ve noticed stories on the classier newspaper websites about the prospect that, in the not too far off future, not only will women be able to [...]

April 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Coping with things

Over the Easter weekend, in a social setting, I found myself in a conversation with a lady of roughly my own vintage which touched upon the problems of ageing and dealing with elderly relatives. It all sprang from her inevitable enquiry as to how my surviving elderly parent was – a query [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Watching the world go by

A few years ago now my father ‘let go’ his ancient gardener and faithful retainer because – to be perfectly honest – he had passed his sell-by date. By then he was approaching the age of eighty and his ability to work during his weekly visits had reduced to little more than riding the [...]

February 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all about how you occupy your time

The truth is that nothing ages you more than having kids – or is it rather that the act of having kids becomes a constant reminder of ‘tempus fugit’ as they grow up into adulthood? Whilst there’s an eternal truth in the adage that we instinctively tend to feel eighteen inside whatever our [...]

February 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The delicate art of making a fuss

It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and, since I have something of an aversion to enforced jollity – for example, the last time I recall being up to see in the New Year in was the Millennium and that shouldn’t really count as I’d actually gone to bed shortly before 8.00pm and found myself [...]

February 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

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