I noticed recently a small cri de coeur from Gumblina, one of our elite Laydeez Battalion, who made a request for the occasional, well, girlie feature in GP. I felt it my duty to respond. [more…]
Mrs Bassman operates as my trip advisor, whether it be booking overnight stays driving down to Corfu, or to places of interest on cruise ships. We have a penchant for heading up north and have [more…]
Nothing reminds me more of attempting to give a coherent account of even the recent the history of the Balkans than the Monty Python gameshow “Summarise the Works of Proust in 15 seconds” (Prrrowst). It’s [more…]
I watched a documentary about The Proclaimers over the New Year. I take an interest in musicians and how they achieve success in the creative field. I’m not over-judgemental and try to find aspects [more…]
Traitor and all round loon There are those on this site who think that the Tories are sleepwalking in a trance towards the destruction of their electoral prospects, possibly forever in their current guise. I [more…]
The driving test! Cue stage thunder and lightning and dungeon torture screams. If your life is fairly ordinary and doesn’t include abnormal episodes, a serious accident, an illness, experience of battle – you know the [more…]
My interest in polar exploration was first kindled in about 1958 when a member of the Sir Vivian Fuchs expedition which completed the first trans-Antarctica crossing came to my primary school and gave us a [more…]
I was reminded in a discussion with Mrs Bassman (yes, we do have them) that in our youngest days the only place you could lay your hands on olive oil was inside the medicine cupboard. [more…]
The Duke of Wellington has many remarks attributed to him, but most are likely to be inventions of Victorian romanticism: early fake news. One thing we can be sure he did say, because he wrote [more…]
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