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Saturday, 26 January 2019

Beware of those who answer unasked questions (or attempt to intellectualise the moolah out of your pocket). Trust your judgment, it’s the only one you have

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A friend who, I gather, regular tunes in here to see read the latest waffle I am spouting was concerned that I hadn’t posted for a while and...
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 ...