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Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Why, perhaps, we have rather less to fear from Diaper Don than many so far suggest – he's yesterday's man

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Harold Macmillan described the greatest challenge to a politician as ‘Events, dear boy, events’ and Joseph Chamberlain warned that ‘In polit...
Thursday, 21 December 2023

Roast cygnet, guffawing farmers, a lodge dinner, thwarted evasion and three main courses – my night rubbing shoulders with the great and good of the City of Lincoln (before later retreating downhill to my rented room in a two-up, two-down)

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While ‘researching’ – the posh word for ‘googling’ – all and any info I can get on the Lincolnshire Standard Group (in Britain), I came acro...
Tuesday, 12 December 2023

Er, more writing (to prove I am as good as my word)

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Well, there you are, a man as good as his word and you can’t often say that. As I am sitting in the Costa Coffee branch on the Old Brompton ...
Monday, 11 December 2023

Ten days in France, now back home again

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Illats, SW France Not so long ago, I reported that I had finally finished ‘My Hemingway bollocks’, officially ‘The Hemingway enigma’, and th...
Tuesday, 28 November 2023

. . . so the dogs bark and the caravan moves on

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The other day I posted that I had finally completed all the work on a book I’m calling The Hemingway Enigma and that it is available to be ...
Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Now published and available on Amazon

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The book I’ve been slaving away on for the past few years, The Hemingway enigma: How did a middling writer achieve such global literary fame...
Monday, 9 October 2023

A schlepp and a half to a wedding in Hamburg, one which some might take in their stride. Me, I’d rather not too often, thank you very much. Too many early mornings

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It was off to Germany last Wednesday, for my youngest nephew’s wedding, and here are a few of the piccies I took. The journey was a tad tort...
Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Me, the complete bastard (and that is not intended as some kind of ironic joke)

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Today, on August 29, 1976, thus 47 years ago, I did one of the most selfish things I’ve ever done and about which to this day I feel ashamed...
Thursday, 17 August 2023

OFFICIAL Private Eye is slowing dying of respectability: a nation mourns. A warning to all – never, but never, become ‘respectable’

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WARNING! THIS ENTRY MIGHT DISTRESS READERS WHO PRIDE THEMSELVES ON ‘BEING ENLIGHTENED’, ‘HAVING A SENSE OF HUMOUR’ AND FOR WHOM ‘BEING PART ...
Monday, 19 June 2023

Well, hello Singapore, so unexpected!

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Hello Singapore! Someone there – or perhaps 3,590 odd people there – like me. At at least that’s what the stats tell me. It could of course ...