01 September 2016 Keeping It Clear Why the British need to learn how to speak English… to foreigners (part 1) by Richard Pooley It must be frustrating sometimes being a French foreign correspondent. Even though French is spoken by 274 million people around the world, half of them live in Africa and a quarter in… Continue reading Issue 69:2016 09 01: Keeping it Clear (Richard Pooley)
Category: Features
Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Talking About Holidays (Chin Chin)
01 September 2016 Talking About Holidays A question of points on the board. By Chin Chin Like fruit, topics of conversation have their season, one week’s chatter supplanting another. This time it is Olympic medals; then it will be a new book; the week after that a corruption scandal spiced with a little sex on… Continue reading Issue 69: 2016 09 01: Talking About Holidays (Chin Chin)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)
25 August 2016 Fading Icons – No Service If only they were all like Tebay. by J.R.Thomas You really can’t avoid them, at least without turning off the motorway. Perhaps it is truer to say, we don’t want to avoid them, driven up the exit ramp by hunger or nagging necessity or that insistent flashing… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Fading Icons – No Service (J R Thomas)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Divine Intervention (Chin Chin)
25 August 2016 Divine Intervention A tribute to the wisdom of the Almighty. By Chin Chin There may be a sporting chance of contact with the Almighty on the road to Damascus but I would have put the odds against an encounter at a filling station on the E45, a main road in the north… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Divine Intervention (Chin Chin)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Avoidable Accidents (Lynda Goetz)
25 August 2016 Avoidable Accidents Are we losing our sense of personal responsibility? by Lynda Goetz I thought long and hard before putting pen to paper (so to speak) on this subject. The tragic accidents around the coast over the weekend have left several families bereaved and children in hospital and, without knowing the particular… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: Avoidable Accidents (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Olympics (Don Urquhart)
25 August 2016 The Olympics A Recipe for Success by Don Urquhart I cannot envisage a situation where I could present my physical being as aesthetically pleasing, even taking account of the eye of the beholder thing. Years ago I was on a sales mission to Toronto and had bonded with some clients over a… Continue reading Issue 68: 2016 08 25: The Olympics (Don Urquhart)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: New Labels For Old (Lynda Goetz)
18 August 2016 New Labels For Old Some indispensable advice. by Lynda Goetz This being the ‘silly season’, The Daily Telegraph letters’ pages have, for a number of days and following a request for advice from a reader, been full of words of wisdom about removing old labels from jam jars – prior to filling them with… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: New Labels For Old (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Shorter Concerts? (Lynda Goetz)
18 August 2016 Shorter Concerts? No intervals, or just better loos? by Lynda Goetz Two rather insignificant pieces of news this week provided some food for thought. The first was an article by the classical pianist Stephen Hough in the Radio Times in which he suggested that the format for classical concerts should perhaps be… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Shorter Concerts? (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Tinker, Tailor… (J R Thomas)
18 August 2016 Tinker, Tailor… by J R Thomas ….Soldier, Sailor. Rich Man is the next in that traditional playground chant; though probably not heard so much in modern playgrounds, tinkering and tailoring having pretty much passed on, soldiering not popular, sailors mostly registered to foreign ports. Rich men, though, they continue to fascinate. Last… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Tinker, Tailor… (J R Thomas)
Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Crossing The Water (Chin Chin)
18 August 2016 Crossing The Water Of ferries and the like. by Chin Chin There has always been something special about crossing water. In Robert Burns’s poem Tam O’Shanter, it is the barrier of a river which holds back the demons who pursue the eponymous hero on his grey mare. In ancient Rome, the crossing of… Continue reading Issue 67: 2016 08 18: Crossing The Water (Chin Chin)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Tandem Sky Dive (Lynda Goetz)
11 August 2016 Tandem Sky-Dive Literally breath-taking! by Lynda Goetz My plans for last Friday did not include a tandem sky-dive. They did include a visit to the beautician’s with my daughter in the afternoon for a leg-wax and a few hours in the morning to accompany her to the airfield at Dunkeswell, where she… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Tandem Sky Dive (Lynda Goetz)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: An Actor’s Life For Me? (Frank O’Nomics)
11 August 2016 An Actor’s Life For Me? 45 lines of dialogue to be an A-list film star. by Frank O’Nomics “I could play that role!” Five words is all it takes for me to generate collective groans from my family. They are usually uttered as we watch a TV crime drama and a studious… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: An Actor’s Life For Me? (Frank O’Nomics)
Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Harley Sleek (J R Thomas)
11 August 2016 Harley Sleek by J R Thomas The Marquess of Bath started it, opening Longleat House to the public to raise some cash after the Second World War, but it was the Duke of Bedford who really made country house visiting a mass market activity. The Duke was a natural showman and entrepreneur,… Continue reading Issue 66: 2016 08 11: Harley Sleek (J R Thomas)
