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View From The Bridge
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A fiftysomething muses upon modern life, women and golf
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ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ …
Yesterday was cold & wet – a time for staying indoors, reading the papers, watching televised sport and being fed good, old-fashioned food in front of a roaring log fire....
GETTING AWAY
Yesterday was one of those days – you’ve probably had them yourself – when I seemed to be excessively busy and yet cannot really recall with what. I do know that, as I was upon the point of departure to travel by train to the coast, I was inter...
THE PERILS OF AUTHORSHIP
Yesterday I undertook my first-ever ‘public’ appearance as the writer of a book, perhaps fittingly attending a book-signing session in the County Arms pub in Wandsworth, organised by a brother who lives nearby. On recent evidence said sibling h...
FOOT FAULT
Picking up from yesterday’s journal mention of my father’s uncle’s ‘Never trust a woman’ advice, I was interested to learn from the newspapers that you can tell a lot in this regard by studying a woman’s feet. Before any of my more sensi...
PUTTING THE WORLD TO RIGHTS
My father and my son Roswell are members of a prestigious club situated in Knightsbridge. Yesterday I was invited to join them there, together with a client of Roswell’s, for lunch. It is in the nature of best-laid plans that things do not work out...
AUTHORSHIP ISSUES
I had a decidedly full schedule yesterday. I could tell that because at lunchtime - instead of downing sausage, peas & mash with lashings of gravy, four pints of Speckled Hen ale & two Ecstasy tablets and settling down in front of the tele...
