What should I give up for Lent? It is a difficult choice here in austerity Britain and austerity Europe and elsewhere too. I have already given up on our government with its collapsing health and economic policies – does that…
88 today! 88 today! It should be a day celebrate and, unfortunately, Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe, has every intention of celebrating it to the full. It is too late now to wish him retribution for the cruel, blood-thirsty and…
As Louis Armstrong once say, it’s a wonderful World! Even if it doesn’t last for long, here in England over the last few days the temperature had risen, daylight has perceptively longer and there is that silent rumbling of Nature…
St Valentine’s Day is now long gone – well a week is a long time in some marriages – so here are some thoughts if you’re thinking about planning one of those days, we are told, that you will always…
OK, I know they look naff, those mobile phone photos with sad-looking geezer, looking at phone looking at mirror image down the gym, but, hey, everyone else does it, so why not me too! Going to the gym is a…
Dory Previn (1925 – 2012) It was poignantly appropriate that the great…
We have all had this problem when deciding where to hang a picture especially if you are unsure about centering it over that radiator which is not in the middle of the wall or whether you should center it with the…
Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer On their wedding day, or so they say, the World watched in awe and with at least one or two tears as the marriage of the century, the great romance was solemnised in the…
I know it is being spoken about, written about, cried over everywhere this last weekend but she was one of those most blessed but tragedy-kissed women who have both brightened up our lives and reminded us of its very frailty.…
Luckily for me I have plenty of logs to put on the fire so last night I was indulgent enough to be carelessly dressed and shoeless but exceedingly cozy in front of my wood-burner stove. It was just as well…