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Monday, 23 April 2018

My thanks to one Neil Cooper, a philosopher, for doing what we should all to: encourage each other. Mr - subsequently Professor - Cooper brought about a one-off minor miracle in my life. And if you read on, you will see why I must also apologise to the good man, and do so now again, publicly

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NB I have a little gizmo at the bottom of this page - it shows about the last four entries - which tells me (in some browsers) when the most...
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Wednesday, 11 April 2018

I am honourably discharged from Her Majesty’s Press, am handed the traditional tin of Werther’s Originals and can look forward to many years of peace and tranquility (well, someone’s got to and it might very well not be you)

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Well, there’s no way to sugar the pill: I am officially now a pensioner and after serving in Her Majesty’s Press for two months short of 44 ...
Sunday, 25 March 2018

Two milestones, a new child (though not mine) and some throwaway comments on ‘art’

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The next three weeks will mark certain milestones in my life. First of all, I shall be hanging up my eyeshade, pot of glue, em rule and th...
Sunday, 18 March 2018

‘Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock’. Funny, then, how folk still try

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I was at primary school in Britain, the Sacred Heart School, in Station Rd., Henley-on-Thames, which moved to Greys Hill, both in Henley-on-...
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Thursday, 15 March 2018

Which finds me in Slovakia to get that gold tooth (or, to be frank the rather cheaper aluminium one, times being hard and all that). As for bumping off hacks, well, it seems Slovakia has a bit of form

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Bratislava, Slovakia I’m here in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, which was from 1918 until 1993 a part of Czechoslovakia, and is now a st...
Sunday, 11 March 2018

The lowdown on hacks (or, at least, my lowdown, but if you come across others, remember: taste it, don’t swallow it)

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It is often the little things which get you thinking, and a slight tiff with a colleague – an insignificant tiff at that – got me thinking a...
Thursday, 15 February 2018

A long, long sigh as the cock-up king reclaims his crown (not that anyone was ever intent on stealing it). As for literary folk - well, let’s see. And a PS on the stats of those viewing this blog (which are rather confusing)

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I should like to begin this entry with a long sigh, but I don’t know how it might be spelled and, anyway, it wouldn’t be a happy sigh of rel...
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Saturday, 27 January 2018

Finally, an entry with teeth, a neglected part of Central Europe gets a look in and one in the eye for those who suspect I am vain. Vain? Moi?

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What do ‘getting a little long in the tooth’ and Slovakia have in common? Well, on the face of it nothing, except that juxtaposing a well-kn...
Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Don’t frighten our young, encourage them - enthuse them, cherish them, love them and stop scaring the bejesus out of them, they are worth more than that and if the truth be told more than us

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Just a quick entry to reassure those who might be concerned that I am still alive and well. I have been feeling guilty at not posting here f...
Monday, 25 December 2017

Liberalism: what a great idea it was. Wonder whether it will make a comeback? You can’t really tell, can you

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A few days ago, the EU announced it would be instituting disciplinary measures against Poland in view of new measures signed into law by its...