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Sunday, 23 December 2018

Beware of what you wish for (or is that the wrong cliche?) Whichever is appropriate, don’t take the Good Times for granted

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Pretty much the first thing I do every morning when I wake up is to reach for my iPad and call up the websites of the saintly Guardian and t...
Tuesday, 18 December 2018

Off for a Yule piss-up, although this newly wise Jack, recently saved from his second brush with death (©Lazarus), will not be knocking back the Camparis, cheap red wine and expensive vintage port with quite the same ruthless abandon as in previous years. No, sir – he’s grown up and now has a mental age of at least 15 if not 16

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Well, I told you all about my second heart attack (just before the piece slagging off the Nobel Prize Laureate Ernest Pinkerton Rutherford d...
Monday, 10 December 2018

Hemingway: a writer of genius or a 24-carat twat who had the luck of Old Nick? Well, I suspect you already know what I think

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For the past few months I have been writing a critique of Ernest Hemingway’s debut novel and, at the time, runaway bestseller The Sun Also R...
Wednesday, 21 November 2018

I pay the price of being remarkably stupid (but get away with it)

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Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, Truro I can’t quite work out why, but I have been fighting very shy of writing this particular blog ent...
Saturday, 10 November 2018

Just a few songs to be getting on with, two of them new to me. Shalom/salaam ‘alaykum

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I’m sure the rest of the world realised long ago that you can now post YouTubes videos directly onto a Blogger blog, but I’m rather slow on ...
Thursday, 25 October 2018

I call on all philistines to come and join me (it’s getting a little lonely in my neck of the woods). We can discuss ‘meaning’ and ‘creativity’ and even try to establish what exactly is the point of Gilbert & George’s work, shit and all

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Heinitzpolder - Dollard, Germany My sister, who lived in the Philippines for several years, a country which has a large ethnic Chinese com...
Tuesday, 23 October 2018

Just a few pics . . .

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Heinitzpolder - Dollard, Germany I’m in North-West Germany for two weeks, arriving last Tuesday, visiting my sister who lives in the back ...
Wednesday, 10 October 2018

What will be in Santa’s Brexit sack next March? Well, I’m buggered if I know

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Remember what it was like looking forward to Christmas when you were young? Remember the excitement, anticipation and wondering what Santa -...
Friday, 21 September 2018

In which I learn that blog entries like lemonade can also go flat. Still. . .

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Three Queens Hotel, Burton-on-Trent – Sunday, September 16. NB This post was begun five days ago, an irony given what I write. Oh, well, y...