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Coping with things

Over the Easter weekend, in a social setting, I found myself in a conversation with a lady of roughly my own vintage which touched upon the problems of ageing and dealing with elderly relatives. It all sprang from her inevitable enquiry as to how my surviving elderly parent was – a query [...]

March 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A flickering candle in the darkness

In the 21st Century – bombarded by media scare stories, examples of unequal treatment and strident opinion on ‘how things would be in a perfect world’ – we tend to take it as read that political correctness rules. It’s reached the point where traditionalists like myself (call us old [...]

March 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all about how you occupy your time

The truth is that nothing ages you more than having kids – or is it rather that the act of having kids becomes a constant reminder of ‘tempus fugit’ as they grow up into adulthood? Whilst there’s an eternal truth in the adage that we instinctively tend to feel eighteen inside whatever our [...]

February 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The delicate art of making a fuss

It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and, since I have something of an aversion to enforced jollity – for example, the last time I recall being up to see in the New Year in was the Millennium and that shouldn’t really count as I’d actually gone to bed shortly before 8.00pm and found myself [...]

February 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

A typical media issue

We all have aspects of the media, or particular media traits, that annoy us or cause us to flirt with contempt towards the medium … and indeed those involved in the stories it runs. One of my pet hates are pieces featuring some obscure university research team that has apparently spent years of [...]

February 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Aspects of elite women’s sport

Later today at some point – I get confused as to time zones and how many hours Australia is ahead of the UK – Serena Williams takes part in the Women’s Final at the Australian Open as (the last time I looked) the 1/5 on favourite. If she wins Serena will equal Steffi Graf’s record of 22 [...]

January 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Men are from Mars? Well, from some distant planet certainly

Sometimes – especially during the festive period when we ladies bear the brunt of the multi-tasking organising, buying and arranging – you just have to laugh. Here’s a link to an article that I spotted today on the subject of men shopping at a certain lingerie store that tickled [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, I suppose you live and learn …

If I sound shocked I supposed I shouldn’t be, really. Being in what I consider the final third of my life span I know that my kids evidently regard me as beyond help in terms of modern life and technology but I have always thought that some aspects of the human condition remain universal and [...]

December 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

The internet has a lot to answer for

It occurs to me that a feature of the internet and its attendant modern social media phenomenon is that most people over the age of fifty have a difficulty to some degree or another in understanding what on earth is going on and why. I know I do. Furthermore, anyone who claims different is being [...]

November 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

I’m probably missing the point, but …

Yesterday Deputy Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt of the Metropolitan Police faced the media to issue a public apology to the world as part of an attempt to bring to an end to the ‘scandal’ of a series of undercover policemen having intimate sexual relationships with unsuspecting women [...]

November 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

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