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Pride weekend

This weekend is Gay Pride at Brighton and some 20,000 visitors will descend on Brighton for it. Already the rainbow bunting is out in full for 48 hours of revelry and gay proclamation. It starts with a procession from Hove Lawns to Preston Park where there is a disco and will finish up in Kemptown [...]

August 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting it on

At the weekend, amidst my domestic chores (including a ‘rubbish run’ to the nearby municipal tip), I happened to catch a small segment of BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live, presented by Sian Williams, which follows The Andrew Marr Show. The springboard to the discussion at hand – on the subject of [...]

July 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Things you never read

I never believe those couples who publicise their break up with there are no third parties involved. It’s rarely if ever the case and I wonder what the motive is. Perhaps they want to present a no-blame front to friends and family so no side is taken. I know one couple who sent out such [...]

June 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

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