Monday, July 23, 2012

Snap!

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Today had a “school day” feeling as I woke early and felt I ought to get up.  This is rather counter to the ideology of a Sunday, but I we...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

New Life?

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Yesterday a whole slew of people I know escaped from the leaden fetters of education: good luck to them all and god knows they deserve the...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Bitter and Sweet

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There comes a time in every thinking adult’s life when he looks around at the sources of public pleasure that he has and debates one of th...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Something for me!

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At last something from my Retirement Lucky Bag.  The delivery people in Castelldefels have kept up their unenviable record of never having...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Worth it?

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Don’t get me wrong, I like electrical stores: gleaming screens; metallic finishes; flashing blue lights; gadgets of all sorts ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Music al fresco

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A whole Sibelius symphony was not something that I expected from the Southampton University Student Orchestra – but it was what we got, si...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Swim for life!

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A Proustain moment has been reached in my swimming. Today, Sunday, I swam for the whole of my allotted time using a vigorous overarm m...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

How little times change!

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It is clearly unfair to use experience in a single firm dating back some forty years to start pontificating about a present situation.  ...
Friday, July 13, 2012

The old concern!

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It must be admitted by the most hopelessly prejudiced observer of what is correct and appropriate that every up-and-down swimm...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Sound, always sound!

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One thing about the back of beyond in Normandy and a well-insulated and double glazed hotel in a remote suburb of Paris is the lack of noi...