Monthly Archives: June 2015

“Starting in the 1950s with the staff of the former Tunbridge Wells Advertiser. The paper’s editor, alarmed at a lack of letters from readers, insisted his staff pen a few to fill space. One signed his simply “Disgusted, Tunbridge Wells”. … Continue reading →

These last few years I have been doing this without really noticing it. Now I do. The expression “to vote with your feet” is ingrained in the Western psyche; it’s about personal democracy – if you don’t like it, you … Continue reading →

My sister (Liz, who now lives in Switzerland) visited us for a long weekend so inevitably we talked about life there, life here and life as we grew up in Worcestershire and Norfolk. Our childhood memories are more or less … Continue reading →

If I have learnt anything (!) it is that things change with time. How’s that for a philosophical start? It is all about perspectives, the way things relate to each other, and how we perceive them at any time. Now … Continue reading →

My formative years were spent in Norfolk. As I have written many times, Norfolk back in the 60’s was quiet and largely empty. My school (Hamond’s Grammar School) was in Swaffham and a boys-only school at that. We had masters … Continue reading →

Remember, if I become judgemental it is with a positive spin from now on. No more Parent Talk with a put-down. So almost exactly a year ago I came up with what could be a world-beating invention, Start-Stop Smart Phones … Continue reading →

A few blogs back I wrote about American-speak as well as their efforts to remove as many “u”s as possible from the English language. A very good friend of mine from the Leeds University era commented: Wikipedia says “However, the … Continue reading →

Well, it took a few weeks but now I have a back-up of all my blogs on WordPress… and I am very happy about that. I am also happy that reading 535 blogs did not stir up memories which affected … Continue reading →