When my friend Alfred Friedel comes off duty it’s usually somewhere around one o’clock in the morning. For Alfred is a newspaperman. And morning newspapermen the world over live like owls. Take a good look [more…]
I do not look back in anger. Rather I look at what I have (and have not) accomplished. I have four children; the eldest is a successful software engineer though I have not seen him [more…]
Monday Good morning everyone from my first diary of the autumn. Overnight the weather forecast seems to have changed. Yesterday, this morning was going to be nice and sunny, but I have woken up to [more…]
They were both up at 07.00, Sally was in the shower first, Dave made coffee and brought it upstairs, they swapped places in the shower, by the time he was out Sally was dressed and [more…]
It was when Willie was being handed over to Barnet General’s Paediatric Accident and Emergency Department when Jinnie heard the paramedics say, “suspected appendicitis”, which was what she feared. Willie was taken into a cubicle [more…]
After 16 months of civil war, Sudan increasingly resembles a ‘failed state’, with displacement and man-made famine driving one of the ‘worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory’. Following early setbacks, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) [more…]
I watched ‘Grace’ last night. New series. Mainly because it was shot where I live. I recognise all the scene settings which makes it jar a bit when they walk down a street and turn [more…]
You climb into an aeroplane at Amsterdam Schiphol and as soon as you are comfortably airborne, you order an excellent dry sherry and nibble at a picnic lunch which you don’t really need. You try [more…]
Monday Good morning happy readers and it looks like it’s going to a nice week for the last week of the school holidays down here in the South. So Liebore said they were going to [more…]
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