Blog & Articles of Interest

Happy January

Running for Age UK. The sous-chef’s challenge for January this year: running his very considerable age. The combination of an old serious injury plus his

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Sixty years on.

Just finished Mickey Spillane’s book “The Snake” (published 1964).   Staggering attitudes towards how men and women interacted: lantern-jawed, monosyllabic Mike Hammer resisting sex before marriage

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New Year Greetings!

Season’s kisses.   Howard arrived with this huge bunch of mistletoe just before Christmas.   It’s hanging in the kitchen ready for kissing duties and he took

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Journey to recovery

Life has been very fuzzy over the last few weeks: on top of the spinal fracture (manageable), still living in hospital bed in conservatory, there’s

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