Month: February 2020

Storm Dennis has abated and the winds are light and the sky is blue. I like the recent comment on Facebook by 'Annie Dieu Le Vent' (must be a made-up name) who said Lots of fuss about Storm Dennis. Seems pretty small beer, really, for someone who lived in Sevenoaks during the Great Storm of 1987, with the house shaking all night, and then emerging bleary-eyed in the morning to find that half the...

I would like to quote from a conversation recorded in Cambridge between Sir Roger Scrutton and Jordan Peterson in 2018, you can see the video yourself but I quote from the last few minutes - Jordan's thoughts about making a contribution. We could concentrate on building the future as opposed to criticizing the past. It is necessary to de-compose to reconstruct. Those acts cannot be separated....

NB 'TA' stands for Trip Advisor. You will see my review here when it arrives. We arrived today, Valentine's Day, at the Old Station Inn, Hallatrow, at lunchtime, 1pm to be precise,  to find an empty restaurant. There was a lady behind the bar - she sounded Irish - and when I said I made a booking she looked at me as if I was like something from outer space. Eventually she roused her mind to give...

I wrote briefly about the people we saw who wanted us to do their garden.  Today, in spite of sunny periods and showers, we did it.  I think it was worth it just because the husband had had an operation three weeks ago. Our tidying stopped him driving his wife mad with fussing about what should be done in the garden. We cleared everything up, trimmed the hedge in front to immaculate levels of...

And here was I, peacefully minding my own business.  No, holding my head in my hands hearing that HS2 is going to get the go-ahead ..... then along comes a solution to my problems, financial ones anyway. I am Mr Abdulla Bin Khalaf Al Otaiba, I am Bank Branch Manger of National Bank of Abu-Dhabi And I want to inform you that an amount of US$16.5 million will be moved To your Name as the Foreign...