Okay, true confessions time. The real reason why I have lost so much weight in the past 18 months is because I have found a new love. I’ve not really tried to keep it secret. My family knows all about it. In fact my wife is quite keen on my new love, too, even if […]
Archives for October 2010
Ovine Metathesis
I play in a Salvation Army band, and I have on and off for sixty years. At band rehearsal this week we warmed up with Lois Bourgeois’s 16th century hymn tune known as “Old Hundredth”. Nowadays churchgoers sing the doxology “Praise God from whom all blessings flow” to Old Hundredth but mostly associate it with […]
A passport service ‘without let or hindrance’?
A passport service ‘without let or hindrance’? – Expat – My Telegraph Here’s some more information relating to my previous post about Brits abroad and the difficulties they experience in getting passports.
My Life in Politics and its Lessons for Fundraisers
Last Friday I delivered pamphlets on behalf of a candidate for the city council here in Toronto. I did the same for our local MP at the last federal election, and then acted as a scrutineer when the votes were counted. That’s it! My career in local and national politics came to not much more […]
“British citizens top list for visa-free travel” (unless they live in Canada)
British citizens top list for visa-free travel – Daily Telegraph I have to admit that I have never had a problem travelling in Europe using my British passport. Behind the old iron curtain, too, the words ‘Her Britannic Majesty requests and requires…’ inscribed in the large blue-black passport got me where I wanted to go. […]
My New Life Gets Off to a Running Start
I blame the sneakers. I ought to have known it was a mistake to buy white ones. (What an awful word ‘sneakers’ is! In my youth we had plimsolls, spikes for athletics, and soccer or rugby boots, but never ‘sneakers’. Not even my friends shod in thick crepe-soled shoes called ‘brothel-creepers’ would have worn something […]