Welcome to my seventh decade. I celebrated with a scramble up a peak in the Brecon Beacons describe by one commentator ‘as though the ground
My birthday weekend. Sixty years old. Although I have been boring everyone with my run up to this occasion it still feels a little surreal.
Happy Mother’s Day. Not that I’m a great supporter of such days. Just another commercially driven celebration. But it is an opportunity to post two
This time last week I was looking forward to a relaxing afternoon cheering on my daughter who was competing in a competition with her friend
Two weeks ago I was soaking up the sun in Tenerife. Yesterday I took on the wind and rain courtesy of Storm Hannah. The motorway
I’m writing this blog lying on a lounger next to the largest infinity pool in Europe. Not that I’ve got in it yet. Just dipping
This week I tried to escape from a nuclear bunker. Well a shack in the grounds of a nuclear bunker. And I was detonated. A
Just a few weeks to go before I can apply for my over 60 London Oyster card and get free prescriptions. Two stressful aspects of
January 2019 is no more. Welcome February. I’m recalibrating the New Year to start again. The days are getting longer, albeit colder, people are drinking
It has not been a good week. It started with an unexpected family death. The shock and the sadness is bad enough but throw in