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Anything that keeps you smiling

More recent generations than mine might think that there are few upsides to being a senior citizen with a fading memory. Although – speaking as someone in that category myself – I might even agree with them in principle, you have to try to keep looking at the bright side, don’t you? [...]

June 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Making the world go around

Anyone who’s reached the age of twelve or thirteen is capable of appreciating that human relationships – opposite sex or same-sex – are infinitely complex. They can be subtle – or decidedly unsubtle. I’m talking about all relationships here, not merely about [...]

June 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

A worthy reunion

Yesterday my brother and I went for lunch with my father and his oldest pal Patrick, who is now over ninety. As it was also the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, we had decided to celebrate that with a bottle of champagne and various props including British, French and Italian (well, it [...]

June 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life on the ocean wave

Towards the end of last week I travelled to stay with my father at the coast for about ten days – part of the reason being to sail in an annual regatta which takes place in June. This year my father is celebrating his half-century as owner/skipper of his 21 feet (at the waterline) keel boat which [...]

June 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s not rocket science!

Today the media is reporting that, whilst a woman’s health is relatively unaffected by whether she is single, together in a relationship or married, that of a man is actually improved by getting married. (Yes, some might argue, a man’s chances of suffering strained muscles or back [...]

June 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Not all developments are advances

Flibanserin. Write that down, ladies – … ‘FLIB … AN … SER … IN’. Apparently, when you’re in Tesco’s tomorrow morning after dropping the kids off at school and firing up your first wash of the day, make sure you pop by at the pharmacy counter and pick up a set of four boxes of [...]

June 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

The way ahead

Writing as a senior citizen who likes to think – probably erroneously – that he keeps up to date with what is happening in the world via his television-watching and internet-browsing, I was pleased this week to be given new confidence about the future by two media reports. The first was about a [...]

May 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Admitting the truth

Yesterday I duly completed my second consecutive day of rescue boat duties and learned something sobering about myself. In common with most members of the human race, I am self-effacing enough not to want to offend or bother anybody and would simply like to conduct my life on the basis that I try [...]

May 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

A sending off

Yesterday afternoon I took my elderly father to the funeral of an old pal of his at a nearby crematorium. We decided to get there early because we’d heard parking might be an issue and we also wished to scout the toilet facilities situation – my father is currently suffering from a slight [...]

May 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

The last farewell

Yesterday I was privileged to join my father at the 68th (and last) reunion of WW2 Fleet Air Arm servicemen trained at HMS St Vincent in Gosport, which took place at the Navy Club in Hill Street, behind Park Lane in London. The original HMS St Vincent was a first-rate ship launched on 11th March [...]

April 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

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