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The Excellent Trap
…there had been no career plan, just trial and error, opportunistic – sometimes desperate – leaps from rock to rock.
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Cliff Richard and The Shadows, “The Final Reunion” – O2 Arena, 26 September 2009
We understand that you’ll never be cool. But we love you, Cliff.
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Odontophobia
…I put this down to a generation of dentists who seemed to come from a military background, recruited in the days when physical strength was required for the job.
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The bubble car picture
And now, perhaps fifty years later, I was looking once more upon the bubble-car picture.
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Lockdown Diary: part 2
Every case of Coronavirus is a game of Russian roulette – and the older you are, the more bullets there are in the cylinder.
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Lockdown Diary: part 1
This is going to be a long haul. Debbie has a rare personality disorder which results in her sometimes finding me extremely annoying.
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The Laboratory in Chestnut Avenue
I learned, perhaps, that the smartest business plan will fail if it upsets customers.
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The Secret Genius of Charles III
Who really wrote the Beatles’ songs? (Or Shakespeare’s plays, come to that.)
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Taid
Taid seems to have preferred the schoolroom to the farm, and perhaps the effort he made to learn English as a child led his part of the family away from the land and into more comfortable (if less beautiful) workplaces.
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Nine Handy Trouble-saving Opera Hacks
Do you ever think there’s a little too much drama in opera? Here I offer a few suggestions as to how the participants could save themselves a bit of trouble.
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Passing Back the Wisdom
“Knowing what you know now, write a letter using exactly 100 words to yourself at the age of sixteen.” That might be fun, thought Nick. Surely it was only fair to give the boy the benefit of his experience?
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