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It depends what you think is important

There is an article by Fiona Macrae featured today on the website of the Daily Mail which suggests that continuing to have sex into your eighth decade sharpens your brainpower and improves the memory – see here – OLDER SEX Normally I dismiss media pieces like this as fillers deployed off a [...]

March 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Keeping in touch

It sounds an obvious thing to state, but we are constantly learning things throughout our lives. As we age beyond fifty or so, it probably serves to remind ourselves occasionally that, if we ever stop learning stuff, it’s likely to be the case that we are beginning on the slippery road to being [...]

March 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Let us celebrate sporting skill

Day 2 of my visit to Portugal began with a visit to see the state of Barry’s yacht now about 40% of the way through its refit. After about an hour of taking a lot of pictures and doing my best to ask intelligent questions I was dismissed and drove Barry’s Renault Megane hire car back to the [...]

February 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sojourn in Portugal

Yesterday I flew to Faro in Portugal from Gatwick at the crack of dawn (actually possibly even before it) in order to spend a couple of days with my son Barry. I’m a keen people-watcher but don’t particularly enjoy crowds, which makes travelling via a low-budget, hair-shirt, airline something [...]

February 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

A reunion lunch

Last week I joined an informal gathering of gents from my old school. I’m not normally one for school reunions but on this occasion I’d met the organiser about a month before and he absolutely insisted I attend. On the day in question I travelled more out of a sense of obligation than anything [...]

February 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

An unhelpful survey

I found the report in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph entitled Age is no barrier to an active sex life for sprightly over-80s somewhat distasteful and disappointing. According to a survey of more than 7,000 elderly people conducted by Manchester University’s School of Social Science, as part of the [...]

January 30, 2015 // 0 Comments

On the front-line

You’re only as old as you feel … or so they say … so naturally all matters regarding sexual relationships and dating are as interesting to those of us aged over sixty as they are to anyone else. In that context, here’s a fun article by Naomi McAuliffe that appears today on [...]

January 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

You just never know, do you?

Yesterday, out of the blue, I received a telephone call from someone who would definitely qualify as (in my terms) as a ‘blast from the past’ – and I don’t mean romantically. Over the course of perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes, we caught up on our respective family and other news. I’m [...]

January 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Thank goodness, it’s over

Yesterday two friends dropped round. One has a successful online counselling service, the other a property services business but is a significant fund raiser for charity through her sponsored running. The runner breathed a sigh of relief and I am  sure spoke for many when she said she was [...]

January 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

To London and back

Staying in the country with my parents for the duration of the festive season, yesterday I was nevertheless obliged by prior arrangement to journey to London for a meeting which had been set up some time ago, before I knew where I would be spending Christmas (if you see what I mean). The meeting [...]

December 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

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