Hi Everyone One of the joys of approaching middle age is that our day is not greeted with an alarm clock, we do not have to struggle to...

Hi Everyone Those of us who are approaching middle age have experienced a number of wars from WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Falklands, and many...

Hi Everyone Back in 1994, we made our first trip to America to visit our friends who, at that time lived on the coast in the state of...

Hi Everyone Do you remember those boring history classes when you were at school? We had the Wars of the Roses, the Hundred Year War that...

Hi Everyone I read something interesting on social media this week when someone posed the question " What did you have as a child that...

Hi Everyone In the 1980s I was the project manager on a hospital ward extension. The building was only about 60 yards long. The architect...

Hi Everyone Two jaw dropping events happened this week. The first was the stabbing of a 15 year old school girl in a busy street in South...

Hi Everyone One hundred and twenty three years ago in 1900, Britain had the largest empire in the history of the world controlling the...

Hi Everyone Did you notice that Batman and Robin were on the road again this week? Well, not that Batman and Robin as these two are not...

Hi Everyone It is a bit concerning when I hear from people from all walks of life that "Britain is Broken". Even if you are a cup half...

Hi Everyone Next week schools start the new educational year after the 6 week summer break. This week the government announced that a...

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Hi Everyone As a young boy the Senior and Junior Partners would take me sometime during the summer on a Sunday afternoon trip to a well...

Hi Everyone It seems a very long time ago that I waited for my A level examination results and how it would change my life. I had the...

Hi Everyone As the energy and cost of living continue to bite, no doubt many hospitality businesses have had conversations about how to...

Hi Everyone For nearly 50 years I was involved in building things. It is very satisfying to know that many of those buildings are still...

Hi Everyone Just when you think that nothing much is happening in your life something extraordinary happens. You know that our city has,...

Hi Everyone Almost twenty five years ago we had a summer holiday on the Greek island of Corfu and the small nearby island of Paxos. As we...

Hi Everyone , If you are approaching middle age, you will remember a cheesy song that was popular in the 1950s - Green Door. One line in...

Hi Everyone Sadly, some of the illegal immigrants crossing the Channel from France in small boats are children traveling alone in a...