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Competence and standards in the modern world

These days – where this be a sign of the times or not – this organ feature on its pages tales of contributors or others who run into stark examples of modern “craziness”; complex official administrative or bureaucratic red tape that – for the average Joe in the street –  hinders [...]

May 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

The General and his NCOs

I take no little pride in resolving the cause of my electrical failure. The tripping was occurring – apparently without cause – but at six hourly intervals. By the logical deduction for which I am known, it had to be linked to a timed device which could only be the boiler. The [...]

May 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

One good turn deserves another

A good friend of mine who, even in his eighties, has never stopped working is now presenting his own show on the radio network Boom which concentrates on Sixties music and the disc jockeys are from that era. My friend “ Diddy” David Hamilton worked on Radio 1 and Radio 2. Others, like Graham [...]

May 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Let there be light

Yesterday was a nondescript sort of day with nothing special planned. Then at 10-00am all power terminated in my home. I am familiar with the tripping of the keyboard and assumed that all would and could be corrected. Not so. So I next called up an electrician who walked me through it. At 5-00pm [...]

May 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

About Schmidt (2002)

Any doubts you might have about the greatness of Jack Nicholson as an actor would be dispelled by this film. He is never type-cast but his persona was more as rebel in confrontation. Here he plays Warren Schmidt, a retired actuary in Nebraska, who buys a mobile home with the intention of travelling [...]

May 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Poltics and sport

This morning my subject du jour is “Sport and politics don’t mix – discuss”. Like all juicy issues, this one has a number of thorny complications and I intend to begin with the most basic because – my hunch is –  a consensus may not be as hard to establish upon it as some might [...]

May 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

The PGA

Whilst this year’s championship was neither memorable for spectator nor this flutterer it did produce a worthy winner in Justin Thomas who beat Will Zalatoris in a play off. He made up 8 strokes on Zalatoris in 10 holes Though ranked third in the world – and now with 2 Majors – Thomas [...]

May 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Train travel and shingles

For reasons which need not detain us here, on Sunday afternoon I felt obliged to take a train from the south coast to the outer suburbs of London in readiness for certain commitments that I had in the latter quarter, starting from 0800 hours yesterday. As Molesworth was prone to suggest, “as any [...]

May 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Quins factor

It barely becomes anyone, still less me, to strike a bum note after watching the Harlequins execute yet another of their now routine “coming back from being all but dead and buried on the scoreboard only to snatch victory at the death with another of their harum-scarum all-out attacking blitz” [...]

May 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

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