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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

A sad anniversary

Today is the second anniversary of my father’s passing. At a party given by Nancy Bright Thompson I met a close friend of Polly, Grania. She is a councillor for Samaritans and told me that a common call is from a bereaved who feels he/she is out of time and does not feel able to raise the [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

What comes around

Six or seven years ago now I sat next to Bob, a friend of my father’s, at a dinner following a public talk given by the author of a new book. I hadn’t seen him for at least eighteen months and so we had quite a lot of catching up to do. Towards the end of said meal he asked me if I knew what [...]

April 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Why haven’t I ever been asked?

I don’t know why, but my eye was drawn to this article by Jane Ussher which appears upon the website of The Independent today – see here – THE [...]

April 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

How it comes across

Yesterday I went to my health club in the cause of my fitness regime – well, I say that, but in reality it is a weight-loss/vanity campaign. It is also one that is becoming increasingly frustrating because, despite my best efforts, I have stalled at the same weight for the past three weeks. [...]

April 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on with it

Sometimes – thankfully – events conspire to remind us to park our self-absorption, reflect upon life and be thankful for small mercies. I hesitate to file this post under the heading ‘There’s always someone worse off than yourself’, but there’s an element of that in my theme today. [...]

March 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

All sweetness and light

A friend of mine’s daughter Katy runs a website called All Sweetness and Light  http://www.all-sweetness-and-life.com which broadly covers online dating.  Katy is a witty, sassy woman with a no holds barred, outrageous attitude to sex . It makes for fun reading but on a deeper level does [...]

March 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

And here’s another one …

Simply by living life we come across every aspect of it, from birth to death – and that includes all the joys, laughter, madness, frustrations, hurts, slights, triumphs, challenges and innumerable other things and situations (great and small) that affect us personally and/or cause us to reflect [...]

March 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

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