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I shall be hated for saying this by every last progressive in the land - and if such admirable folk living further afield also know or know ...

After publishing my last entry, I did a bit of hunting around on the net to come up with these quotations. I hope they amuse you. But more t...

I don’t know whether other bloggers do so, but once I have posted an entry, I revisit it several times in the following days and weeks to so...

I am 60 tomorrow, and as a treat, our stepmother took myself and my sister to Rick Stein’s seafood restaurant in Padstow. (My sister has flo...

It would be technically true to say that I have worked as a journalist for the past 35 years. I started my first job, working for the Lincol...

Working and living in London I didn’t need a car, so once I had rid myself of my very awful Vauxhall Chevette - and discovered that since I ...

Apropos nothing at all, a few definitions which have been bandied about these past few minutes here at work: "A pessimist sees his glas...

Are you managing to stay abreast with how our language keeps changing? If you’re not, I fully understand. It’s a big ask (as people quite ap...

My second 2CV gave very good service and saw me through my bleak months of unemployment and landing a job as a sub on the South Wales Echo i...

Yesterday, I heard a Radio 4 programme by Alastair Campbell waxing lyrical about Jacques Brel. I don't speak French, and although I know...