Monthly Archives: April 2014

Some time back, I wrote about a trip to Italy and my stay in Amalfi. I had attended the memorial service for my PhD supervisor (David Jones) before flying from Leeds to Florence where I picked up a hire car. … Continue reading →

Christy (my second daughter) has always found it difficult to make choices. I have written about this before. This week she was told that the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague had accepted her as a dual student which means studying … Continue reading →

As I have written before, my life is a series of chapters. Like wagons on a train, each one full of memories about periods of my life, they are a legacy of things I have done and people I have … Continue reading →

Today is my birthday, I am a Ram alright; impetuous and starting more than I can ever finish. That’s me. 24,106 days ago I opened my eyes for the first time. So I have woken up on 24,106 days as … Continue reading →

In 1956, Harold Macmillan (then Prime Minister) introduced the Premium Bond, a scheme now known as the National Lottery. You could buy a Premium Bond for £1 which was quite a lot of money “in those days”. I ended up … Continue reading →

When my kids were young, they loved drawing. Amazing shapes and colours, their fantasy was captured on paper and I am so happy I have many of these art works. Here is just one of them: 3 kids can turn … Continue reading →

People are fascinating. In the 70’s I read Manwatching in which Desmond Morris delved into we humans much in the same way as you would research on other primates and animals. Around the same time came Jacob Bronowski and his … Continue reading →