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That’s it – I’ll get me coat

The advance of female equality and emancipation knows no bounds – and not always in a good way. We have all experienced the phenomenon of enjoying too much of a good thing. For example, if you were an ice cream fan and suddenly got locked in an ice cream shop overnight, within two or three [...]

July 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The joys of opting out

It’s a common thing for those with families and wide-ranging, active, social lives to regard those who choose to enjoy their own company as odd, whacky or weirdo. Whenever the name of some single woman in her thirties or forties comes up and the conversation soon goes down the line broadly [...]

June 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Birthday party

Notwithstanding my busy schedule of buying and selling two properties next week, which necessitates putting the poppets on the back burner, there was no way I was missing Jamie’s 6th birthday. This was held at the Pizza Express in Wimbledon and six of his little friends plus his aunt and [...]

June 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

No easy solution

Earlier this week, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, the home minister responsible for law and order – one Babulal Gaur – publicly uttered his horrific opinion that the crime of rape is only committed if it is reported to the police: “This is a social crime which depends on men and [...]

June 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

A stone setting to remember

Yesterday I attended the stone setting of two members of our family. In the Jewish religion the funeral takes place as soon as possible after death and is therefore rushed. The stone is laid and the grave consecrated normally one year later. It’s not like a Christian memorial service but [...]

June 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

Why can’t a woman be like a man?

I’m sure my readers are familiar with this song from My Fair Lady, which I have always considered to be an accurate reflection of my views on the fair sex and probably accounts for my bachelor status. From time to time a woman tries hard to organise me domestically and the harder she tries [...]

May 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

A birthday lunch

Yesterday I attended an enjoyable family lunch in Knightsbridge hosted by my father on what would have my mother’s 90th birthday, had she still been alive. It might be churlish of me to remark that one aspect of the occasion that surprised me was how little of it was spent actually paying tribute [...]

May 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Home truths

I think I’ve discovered the reason for my recent lack of success with the opposite sex, courtesy of an article featuring on the website of the Daily Mail this morning – see here – YOU HAVE JUST 12 MINUTES TO IMPRESS ON A DATE When I reached the bottom of the page, there was a list of the top [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Public perceptions

Now that we have begun having full-on same-sex marriages, one would have thought that the whole issue of revulsion at the very concept of homosexuality in British society might have disappeared, if not been swept under the carpet or buried altogether. After all, that is presumably what all those [...]

April 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

A case of getting used to it?

At a few minutes past midnight, as this new variety of the institution became officially legal, the first same-sex marriage was duly conducted in Brighton, the south coast town where homosexuality has long been not just accepted but practically compulsory. I am not altogether supportive of this [...]

March 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

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