Brexit: it’s all about the fish
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in politics
I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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In a year of such bad news the headline that a Brexit deal has been signed counts as good news but it is only relatively, and minimally, so. For the country at large it means duty and quota free access…
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Breakfast at Bill’s @billscambridge
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in restaurantsIt doesn’t really have the same cachet as Breakfast at Tiffany’s but I like the alliteration. Until the first Covid lockdown we went to Cambridge just about every Saturday morning and we’d generally have breakfast at Don Pasquale with Tony…
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People die but sometimes you don’t know
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in familyIt’s that time of year. Time to write Xmas cards. We continue to do this because there’s people out there whom we know and we want to tell that we remember them. An email is just a little bit too…
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My mother didn’t have a happy life
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I don’t mean that it was uniformly unhappy but after a promising start she suffered a misfortune which, despite her undoubted mental strength and determination, was to blight the rest of her life. Audrey Vickers was born in 1923 and…
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What’s wrong with using the phone?
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I know it’s already been reported that younger people don’t use the phone. It’s said that they prefer to communicate in other ways, mainly via social media and its associated messaging services. They do this because they’re all linked in…
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Leaders are only as good as their teams
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The All Stars, Lensbury’s 2nd rugby team: I’ve always enjoyed sport, as a spectator and a participant. Unfortunately I’ve never been that good at it and in school, although I’d have happily swapped a few academic grades for a place…
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Sep 20: photo of the month
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in photosI take a beer photo every Friday and I guess one was going to be seen as deserving the ultimate accolade. This one looks good enough to drink and is of a beer which I often drank on visits to…
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Aug 20: photo of the month
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in photosI take this shot most Saturdays and Sundays now because my regular weekend routines have been upset by (a) the closure of Don Pasquale and (b) Covid. I reckon I’m good at scrambled eggs and I got introduced to avocado…
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5 German cities
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They’re not the most interesting German cities and this is certainly not any sort of in depth profile of them but it’s the five cities which give me good memories. It helps that I spent 13 years working in the…
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5 early starts
It’s been a busy week and I’ve had 5 early starts. Well actually not that early but earlier than I aspire to these days.
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