I feel another serious homily coming on, having just seen Oliver Stone's interesting revisionist US history documentaries on Netflix, and...

There are dog people, and cat people; there are gin people and vodka people; then there are tea people and there are coffee people. I am...

20 years ago, if you asked for a gin and tonic in a UK pub, you would get one (or if lucky, maybe two) ice cubes in a thin tall glass, a...

I have always found the way that a conversation can develop and migrate from topic to topic over minutes and hours to be fascinating....

Why start a Blog now? I am 65 and pretty busy, this may well be the last thing I need. To be honest, its partly because of Covid-19 -...

I only really imagined that this Blog would be seen by people who already know who I am; but if you have wandered here by accident here...