Monthly Archives: February 2016

More and more, I am reading about the new things people have discovered in the human brain. Or is it simply that, as you get older, you start to read these articles whereas before I ignored them? What I still … Continue reading →

I have been officially retired now for almost 3 years. For the last 12 years I have worked from home, for a company where I was a co-founder and for a Foundation where I was also a co-founder (Kids and … Continue reading →

At my school in Swaffham, we were given free milk in the morning break “to keep us healthy” and there was a Tuck Shop where you could get crisps and chocolate. For lunch, and it was a free lunch, we … Continue reading →

My mum was always the perfect mum; patient, hard-working and in every way the wife of a schoolmaster. During the Second World War, she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) – the women’s branch of the British Army which … Continue reading →

At school in Norfolk (Hamonds Grammar School in Swaffham) every year there was ‘The School Play’ which inevitably was a classic such as Trial By Jury (1966) or The Devil’s Disciple (1964). We boys did our best to make these … Continue reading →