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       It's a sorry state of affairs when the only two posts I have made this year to date concern the deaths of two people w...

 7:15 a.m on Monday 10 January 2016. That was the time of my 'Kennedyesque' moment. A knock on the bathroom door and my wif...

Having wanted to go to the Isle of Wight for years now but always put off by the cost - £96 return by car from Lymington to Yarmouth - I was...

We all like stats and bizarre numbers and sometimes one comes along that makes you go wow! 10% of all photographs ever taking were taken l...

The Grand Pier, Weston Super Mare   Would you pay £1 to walk on a pier that had cost £39 million to rebuild in 2010 two years after the...

To anybody under the age of thirty (Sir) Elton John is probably best known as the composer of music for the funeral of the 'People...

It's usually July that finds me inactive on this blog but the last three or four weeks have found me reluctant to commit anything to pap...

....Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. Back on 27th August 1990 a new BBC radio station hit the airwaves, it was called BBC Radio 5. The station was a mi...

Friday 7th February 2014 Thirty two years ago Janis and I went on our first 'date'. It was the traditional first date in the sense...

....sick and tired you've been hanging on me. The wettest month since records began apparently, that's the problem with records th...

A red letter day in our family yesterday as Nathalie had to call in sick. That's the first day she has had sick since starting primary s...

Anybody who has visited the cinema over the past month or seen the trailer for 'American Hustle' on tv couldn't help but not...

Alexandra Bastedo (9 March 1946 - 12 January 2014) died today, another actress from our collective teenage years, another relatively you...

I had intended writing about aspirational advertising today (no really) but when looking for an external hard drive online I came across ...

Let's be honest two people turning up at an anonymous Paris address on a moped wearing crash helmets doesn't look out of pla...

Simone de Beauvoir is the latest dead celebrity to get the 'Google Doodle' accolade. Not sure where us men stand in the second d...

Be careful for what you wish for is the motto of this story that is currently doing the rounds.

Tory MP Penny Mordaunt as shown that she isn't daunted at all by the prospect of getting down and clean by accepting an invitation to ta...

Caroline Criado-Perez   is the sort of woman I would hope we would all want our daughters to grow up like. She believed enough in her princi...

Last year I suggested Haim might be a band to watch in 2013, it wasn't that much of a long shot given that their first two singles had s...