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Wednesday, 30 August 2023

Rose-tinted memories, mis-remembered by some, forgotten by others

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A few years ago a university friend attempted to reunite our old gang. The response was somewhat unenthusiastic. Rose-tinted memories resur...
Saturday, 26 August 2023

How to enrich your life

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I love libraries. Unlike the online world, they don't limit your horizons to something an algorithm suggests because you've taken ...
Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Cheating at cards... it's about the only crime that can still finish you

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Last year the screen persona of James Bond turned 60. He made his debut in 1962 with Dr. No . I must have seen all the movies. I groaned a...
Friday, 17 March 2023

It's Friday, it's Fontvieille, and it's fish and chips

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We don't do too badly for fancy fare in Monaco. The 2023 Michelin Red Guide for France was published at the beginning of March, awardi...
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Virginity: the sum of a girl's worth

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In the early 1970s Mum's American pen friend and family paid us a visit on their way home from Iran; the husband was something in US di...
Thursday, 2 March 2023

Alice's Adventures in Blackpool - a poem for children that's best read aloud

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Writing Magazine's recent competition was to write a poem inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice adventures. If you've been followin...
Friday, 24 February 2023

Now, I realize that accounts differ... My account you can trust

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Did you know that Macbeth was a real Scottish king who died nine years before William the Conqueror fought the battle of Hastings? Shakes...