When Shakespeare wrote about the seven ages of man it seemed quite clear on the surface but when you look closely it is more like the seven ages of contradiction. No sooner do you learn a new skill than it is all change. When a baby burps the parents ooh and aah and congratulate the …
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If only closed minds came with closed mouths!
Sex education at my school was a diagram drawn on the blackboard of rabbits mating. I was brought up on a farm so I had some idea of what went on, but my generation were incredibly ignorant. It took me years to work out what lesbians could possibly do, although I did have a fantastic …
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Are you a town mouse or a country mouse?
Are you a country mouse or a town mouse or do you have a foot in both camps? QUESTION A B C What kind of car do you drive? Latest spec 4 x 4 Five year old 4 x 4 Ancient Land Rover Defender What’s in the warming oven of your Aga? The …
Life is far too important to take seriously.
It will not come as a surprise to anyone who knows me to learn that I was a bit of a rebel at school. In fact, I got expelled. I was caught one evening in the Japanese Garden after I had persuaded Terry, the boy who delivered the meat, to come there and teach me …
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COVID BRAIN
My son used to say that I had the concentration span of a goldfish – I think this might be a bit unfair to goldfish. Particularly at the moment. I have noticed things getting far worse during Covid. The plots of television ads are about the most challenging things I can manage. There was one …
Does it ever get cold on the moral high ground?
We’ve all been there – yes, you have – the disapproving look you give when your best friend’s had too much to drink. Just like you’ve never done that! I’m only human, you take the moral high ground but they are smug.It’s all about perspective. I’m only human You take the Moral High Ground They …
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What a bummer!
This is a different sort of post – hopefully it will make you smile but also maybe think a bit about the sort of medical things that I, for one, try not to think about!The whole procedure was fairly unpleasant but worth doing whatever the result. As they say Knowledge is power. 20/10/20At the moment …
Go on, you’ll enjoy it!
Live and let Live has always been my motto. Obviously if someone told me they were going to rob a bank I would probably try to dissuade them, I might even ring the police if I thought they were serious. Although I suppose it would depend on how I was feeling about banks at the …
The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Nobody plans on becoming obsolete, but suddenly we are. One minute we are at the cutting edge of life – right up there with the ‘in crowd’ then suddenly we are old farts. Sometimes I feel that I should be put in a glass box and trotted round to schools as a piece of living …
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The More I Think the More Confused I Get.
It’s not necessary for us oldies to understand everything that goes on in the modern world, but one doesn’t want to live life in a state of total confusion. We have little Tuk Tuks for tourists round our way which seem to me to be more useful and more fun that Tik Tok, but then …
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