Category: Features

Issue 5: 2015 06 04: Towering Over Us

4 June 2015 Towering Over Us by J R Thomas  The news that Anthony Horowitz has being given permission by the Ian Fleming estate to write a sequel to “Goldfinger”, perhaps the towering height of the James Bond book and film franchise, draws remembrance of another towering Goldfinger – Erno, the modernist architect of the… Continue reading Issue 5: 2015 06 04: Towering Over Us

Issue 5: 2015 05 28: Droning on

4 June 2015 Droning on by Chin Chin Perhaps you offended them. Maybe they felt unwelcome when they came round to dinner, or they heard that joke you made about them through your mutual “friends”. There has to be some explanation for the gift. No one could give one of those things to an eight-year-old boy… Continue reading Issue 5: 2015 05 28: Droning on

Issue 4:2015 05 28:Breakfast through the ages

28 May 2015 Breakfast through the Ages by Lynda Goetz Adelle Davis (1904-1974), an American health guru (about whom I know very little), has been attributed with the quote “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper”. I have also heard it as ‘Breakfast like a king; lunch like… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Breakfast through the ages

Issue 4:2015 05 28: A surfeit of Lampreys?

28 May 2015 A surfeit of Lampreys? By Chin Chin It is the English summer again with its associations with strawberries and cream and with the crack of willow on leather. These days, however, there is something else too. There is the beginning of a search for the remains of another English king, buried, as… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28: A surfeit of Lampreys?

Issue 4:2015 05 28:Cultivated Islands

28 May 2015  Cultivated Islands by R J Thomas The pavilions are coming down in front of the Royal Chelsea Hospital, and the display gardens on which so much time (and money) was spent and which looked so tastefully permanent have been loaded back on trucks to return to all corners of the Kingdom.  The… Continue reading Issue 4:2015 05 28:Cultivated Islands

Issue3: 2015 05 21:Welcome to Ourtown; twinned with Votreville

21 May 2015 Welcome to Ourtown; twinned with Votreville by Lynda Goetz   Is there a future for Town Twinning?   As the smiling young waitress cleared the plates, the attractive, petite French (or rather Bretonne) woman in her early 40s laughed and handed her phone across the table to me by way of response… Continue reading Issue3: 2015 05 21:Welcome to Ourtown; twinned with Votreville

Issue 3: 2015 05 21:Harriered to Death

21 May 2015  Harriered to Death   by R.J. Thomas                                                                                           On a northern hillside there are strange goings on. Half hidden in a heather moor above the Forest of Bowland in North Lancashire are a small group of camouflaged figures, with survival rations and powerful binoculars, keeping a round the clock vigil. This is not,… Continue reading Issue 3: 2015 05 21:Harriered to Death

Issue 2: 2015 05 1414 :Male and email

14 May 2015 Male and email by Chin Chin The experts all seem to agree. Time spent looking at emails is reducing British productivity. It is bad for health and family life too, with the checking of inboxes whilst on holidays being labelled “sick” by Sir Cary Cooper, Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health at… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 1414 :Male and email

Issue 2: 2015 05 07: Pietersen- shades of Achilles

14 May 2015 Pietersen- shades of Achilles by John Watson As far as I know, Achilles was not much of a cricketer so perhaps it is odd that you will find things in common between his life and the career of Kevin Pietersen. We all know about Pietersen, of course, but for those whose copy… Continue reading Issue 2: 2015 05 07: Pietersen- shades of Achilles

Issue 2:2015 05 14:Vets Bills and NHS Costs

7 May 2015 Vets Bills and NHS Costs by Lynda Goetz  I had to take the dog to the vet this week and the impressive, if quite expensive, treatment it was given has prompted some thoughts about our expectations of the service veterinary practices provide for our animals and those provided by the NHS for… Continue reading Issue 2:2015 05 14:Vets Bills and NHS Costs

Issue 1: 2015 05 07 Fading Icons: The stuffing is pulled out of the National Trust

7 May 2015 Fading Icons: The stuffing is pulled out of the National Trust                                        by R J Thomas Injudicious if revealing words have got Dame Helen Ghosh, Director General of the National Trust, the rural land and buildings conservation group and the largest landowner in England and Wales, into boiling water with the traditionalist wing… Continue reading Issue 1: 2015 05 07 Fading Icons: The stuffing is pulled out of the National Trust

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