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Thursday, 28 February 2019

When friendship dies but the corpse still twitches. Sounds familiar? I’m sure it does to some

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I wonder whether anyone reading this has come across the same dilemma: that a ‘friend’ who has been a ‘friend’ for many years is still a ‘fr...
Monday, 11 February 2019

We’ve all got a book in us (they say) and it’s a shame my father’s never quite saw the light of day

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My sister (who, she assures me, tunes into this ’ere blog every now and then) might remember this or she might not, but here goes: for prett...
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...