Last month I went to see the fabulous Pink Floyd exhibition, Their Mortal Remains, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. Entering t...
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We got a lucky break flying with British Airways out of Heathrow on Saturday. The flight went on time. By that I don’t just mean that when it sa...
Read MoreFLYING: Fit to fly – not affected by any BA delay
Last Friday was the first anniversary of the Referendum in which the UK voted by 51.9% to 48.1% to leave the European Union. At some point betwee...
Read MoreFANTASY: Wishing that Brexit would take an exit
The E.M. Forster novel, A Room With A View, was written over a century ago. The film version provided an at-times beautiful portrait of Florence, the ...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Two rooms with a view
Yesterday saw Scotland play England at Hampden Park, Glasgow, in a World Cup qualifying match. England were in a strong position in the table and they...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: The auldest of enemies
What is it with Tiger Woods and cars? In 2009, he drove one into a fire hydrant while in the process of wrecking his marriage. Approaching eight yea...
Read MoreGOLF: Tiger trauma – asleep at the wheel on a road to nowhere
It was less than three months ago, when we had more than once been strongly informed that things were very stable and there was no chance of there bei...
Read MoreFINANCE: What we need is strong and stable – yes, it’s the Derby tomorrow
Apologies for the brevity of this blog. I had anticipated making an overseas trip or two since I last posted one on flying but those plans are…w...
Read MoreFLYING: Golf from a high
On the home page of this blog is the back side of a perfectly normal pair of jeans. Jeans are an item of clothing that dates from the Gold Rush in C...
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