When you’re travelling along on the train, keep a careful eye on the end of the platforms, especially the London Stations. You’ll usually find a a group of chaps patiently focused on the distant tracks awaiting the next oncoming train.
As soon as one does, the conversations amongst themselves over something they saw last weekend will [...]

Are you like me and cringe everytimne the phone rings? It’s either someone you don’t really want to talk to, someone phoning up for money, someone trying to sell you something - or family.
Now family and friends is OK, but if you haven’t got the little screen which displays the phone number, you are often [...]

I went to Kent Cricket Club today and because of the weather,
thought I’d let the train take the strain.
Before I left the Club I had a quick look at the timetable and found I would have about half an hour to spare, so thought I would pop into Canterbury Cathedral just to light a [...]

It’s strange because my son Leo, at 17, can inform me of things which happened in the 1960’s music scene which I either didn’t know, or forgotten. Maybe that’s the evidence that I was ‘in the 60’s’!!
But once in a while, names from the past come out and the memories roll back. Something like this [...]

My son has arrive down the lane for a temporary, maybe permanant basis and I needed to get a few things sorted out on the financial side. At the best of times I’ve about 25p in my pocket and where we live means a 4 mile bus trip etc.,etc.
So, boldly I went. Never before in [...]

I guess I may as well start off the new year by being a miserable old git and say - when you’ve had more years than you’ve got ahead of you - why celebrate!!
This year I shall reach the, what I thought back in about 1966 as impossible, age of 59, one off the big [...]

First, I know I have one and I use it, albeit only if I really have to and I’m inclined to turn it off quite a lot. Also, I have a respect and understanding for those who really need them, especially women who are maybe travelling alone either by car or public transport.
Other than that, [...]