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Category: life

  • Stent plus three. Or how the world has changed.

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    29 Aug 2019 was the day I was wheeled into Royal Papworth to undergo an angioplasty which, according to Dr Kilani who performed the procedure, probably pre-empted a heart attack and who knows what the consequences of that would have been. But that was then and now is a different time and the country has…

  • Brighton: 5 takeaways

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    I’ve just spent a couple of nights in Brighton. I must say I’m underwhelmed but then maybe what it offers is not what I look for. Anyway these are my five takeaways (four positive and one negative to make up the numbers).

  • Talking about @Railcards … and systems glitches

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    I’ve got what’s described these days as a Senior Railcard. I’ve had one for some time now, must be coming up to 10 years, it gets me one third off most rail fares and although I don’t use it that often it has certainly saved me money.

  • GoNW 2022: five highlights

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    We’ve just enjoyed the best part of a week in north and mid Wales. I wouldn’t want to overdo it but it was a reasonably emotional trip for me because I grew up in Wales and visiting places I remember from those days, seeing the Welsh signs and place names and hearing the language spoken…

  • Imperial nonsense

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    Enough’s already been written about the lunacy of Johnson’s ‘consultation’ regarding the use of imperial measurements. There’s a good overview in the Guardian (click here).

  • It’s amazing what you find when you’re not looking

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    This document dates from Dec 98/Jan 99 when we took a New Year’s break in Malaysia. We flew after Xmas, stayed for a few nights in Kuala Lumpur and then went to Penang for the New Year. We stayed in the Penang Mutiara beach resort, I know because the document was written on the back…

  • I’ve got a new phone!

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    Nothing special about this you might say. Some are in the habit of changing their phones whenever a new model from their favoured brands is released. I’m not like that. I’ve had my last phone for four or five years and although it works well and meets all my needs it’s gotten into the habit…

  • Switzerland 40 years on

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    We lived in Switzerland in the 80s (and a couple of years either side). Clare and Charles were both born there and we bought a house. We had a good life but then the world changed and we moved on.

  • £600 and a couple of extractions later

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    It began in a workshop with a whiff of diesel next to a village green in South Cambs and it finished in a medically clean room in Cambridge. Everything worked out just fine but I was left some £600 poorer.

  • 5 signs you’re a little bit older

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    As people are inclined to say: not a lot improves as you get older, it’s just better than the alternative