Winners
I don’t understand all this business of not having winners at school. The only way I ever had a chance to qualify for university was being in competition with my cousin. It’s fine to talk […]
I don’t understand all this business of not having winners at school. The only way I ever had a chance to qualify for university was being in competition with my cousin. It’s fine to talk […]
I’ve always felt it was appropriate that young Timmy Dalton played James Bond. You see, as well as having a scientist, John, a chancellor, Hugh, a rugby player and a yachtsman in the family, I […]
Having been in South Africa, which, being more recent, has place names that tell something about the place, I’ve become interested in place names all over. Oxford and Cam,bridge, I can see as Ox – […]
The book I want to write before I die is about The Giant Within all of us. It’s a calm giant, easily restrained by social convention or inhibition or even lack of self esteem. This […]
It was the bath! Eighty odd year old Annie had thought the problems over moving to the Shelter flat would be downsizing and sending her prized possessions to the Charity Shop and arranging for an […]
Unlike the young chap in the queue in the Post Office, you have to be relaxed to enjoy Christmas fun. The woman at the front was trying to fill in some kind of form but […]
Christmas shopping has gone down hill. When I was younger, the assistant in the village High Street shop didn’t just complain about the weather and point down an aisle and tell me the ladies department […]
One of the reasons I love the Bible stories and the Nativity one dominates this time of year is that I see the scene and problems in them. Take the Inn with no room. Here […]
As you will have gathered from the books I write, I have an interest in history. It comes from my father and one teacher. Other teachers taught that the Romans left Britain in 410, about […]
We were talking of the America’s Cup the other day and saying I had written quite a bit about the South African entry in the early two thousands reminded me that Royal Cape Yacht Club […]