Monthly Archives: January 2016

Mysterious title? Yes, perhaps. But this is my blog number 600 and I never ever thought it would get this far… but it did, and I do not intend to stop now. In cricket, when you reach a high score … Continue reading →

These last three years or so, I have eluded to the life my children lead now compared to the one I had as a boy. There is no comparison and, nostalgic as I sometimes am, I am not that unhappy … Continue reading →

Like last year, I am not in Davos for the World Economic Forum. I probably won’t be next year either, for reasons that prompt me to write this blog today. You would be forgiven for thinking that all these world … Continue reading →

A short time ago, there was some embarrassment at the World Taekwondo Federation with its acronym WTF which is now part of Urban English but in no way about taekwondo… But searching for this now reveals nothing; clearly ‘someone’ has … Continue reading →

She is a Chinese lady I really wish I had met. Together with her sister, she wrote the Gourmet Guide to Chinese Cuisine of which I have the 3rd edition. It was given to me by Chaucer Tang, a graduate … Continue reading →

For a short time, I nurtured a career as a lawyer; I was at school in Norfolk (Hamonds Grammar School) and trying to choose what to study next, for the dreaded A-level exams and (hopefully) then a university place. In … Continue reading →

The Guardian newspaper is running a series of articles on Gentrification this week; it is a posh word for something rather nasty. British sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term “Gentrification” in 1964 to describe the influx of middle-class people displacing … Continue reading →

The five minutes before I wake up are my most productive (as I will now explain). As ever, my dad bears a heavy responsibility for the way I think, best illustrated by one of his solo efforts as headmaster of … Continue reading →

As I keep reminding my kids, I am a digital migrant. Before 1980, the typewriter was the ultimate in ‘word processing’; IBM had pioneered the golf ball typewriter with interchangeable fonts and I spent many an hour typing my heart … Continue reading →

He died today. He was 69. He was a legend. He was an inspiration. It is impossible to say anything new about David Bowie. One little detail. The pupil of his left eye was much larger than in his right … Continue reading →