Why did I stop writing my blog and what made me want to restart? In a word, Facebook. Facebook was where people of my generation were hanging out, so for the past eight years it’s where I’ve been, too. My Facebook friends and my various groups write interesting stuff for the most part, and I […]
Thinking Allowed
This Spectr’d Isle
My mother has been to see me only a couple of times since she died The last time she visited she came with my grandmother, who died in 1954.
My year as a child soldier
ARMY cadets in Plymouth have been banned from carrying rifles in public just days before they were due to take part in a Remembrance festival. (The Herald) Yes, I did carry a rifle before I was eighteen years of age — for a year. Along with my fellow members of the Air Training Corps (ATC) […]
Penny for the guy?
What’s the longest-lived and most successful fundraising ‘ask’ ever? It has to be “Penny for the guy”. Boys in England have been asking for money from strangers in the street using this phrase for, possibly, hundreds of years, raising the equivalent of millions in the process to pay for their fireworks and festivities on the […]
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.
Dirty, or just stained? Theology in a coffee cup.
Swiss Chalet is a well known Canadian restaurant chain specialising in spit-roasted chicken. Their meals are modestly priced and somewhat unimaginative — good, basic, wholesome fare. Not the place to impress an important client, but ideal for Mother’s Day. MacDonalds for grown-ups, they used to call it. Let me say that I generally enjoy lunch […]