Category: nostalgia

As frequent as clockwork or should that be regular?

My dear old mother used to say that some things just got her goat, not that she had such an animal - it was just a colloquialism (which she kept in the backyard, with the cat, among the pigeons). It meant that some things really got her back up. Oops, there goes another one! The … Continue reading As frequent as clockwork or should that be regular? →

Duck-it List: Episode ONE

Things I will not eat The world is not my oyster By way of a brief introduction these are things that form part of my Duck-it list: Things I plan never to do in my lifetime; some of which I have never done, marked (V) for Virgin; and some that I have tried and vow … Continue reading Duck-it List: Episode ONE →

Get one over on the Grim Reaper – draw up a Duck-it List

Jbuzbee / CC BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 Don't focus on kicking the bucket, just keep kicking the can down the road. Bucket Lists get so much coverage in books, on TV, in films, but the trouble with them is that they have a finite end. You either die having failed to finish your objectives, or you finish … Continue reading Get one over on the Grim Reaper – draw up a Duck-it List →

Someday my plinth will come…

Or welcome to my Hall of Shame I have often casually wondered about statues in an uninterested kind of way.  Ever since I was a kid, I was subjected to a forest of the bloody things.  There seemed to be one on almost every street corner in central London; the parks and public spaces were … Continue reading Someday my plinth will come… →