For the first eight years of my life, I had two grandmothers. Geographically, and in just about every other way, they were polls apart. I...

I wrote this piece a week ago and decided not to cause worry at home by mentioning it, or blogging about it, before I got back. Up until...

It took me all the way from Victoria Station to the one and only stop on the London underground not to have any of the letters from the...

Dear Mr McCrum This may be the last blog I ever post, as I am sick and may not last the night. As my late headmaster, you have a right to...

I am very much in demand. If you look in the ‘trash’ section of my email files, you will find many communications from Linkedin telling...

All I really remember now is the music. Ragtime on a Russian piano in one corner of the square; ‘Country Roads, Take me Home’ (CDs £5.00...

Years ago, I watched a Chieftain Tank ploughing its way through a birch wood somewhere in North Germany. Its 62 ton bulk, coupled with...

Me and Graham are thinking of moving in together. Oh, don’t take on so. The signs have been there for weeks, months even. Those furtive...

I hope that life has settled down for you since you sent our man packing. It was good to see your wisdom and moderation back in action...

Not long ago, I was refused admission to an event, on the curious basis of my not wearing a tie. No big story there, I grant you. The man...

My spirit animal is a Manx Shearwater, and simplicity is why. Sometime in the late summer, the Shearwater takes off from its west coast...

Dear Boris, Michael, Jeremy, Dominic, Sajid, Matt, Rory, Mark, Andrea, Sam and Esther. Blimey there’s a lot of you, but thank you all for...

Dear Assistant Chief Constable I hope that you and Mrs. Assistant Chief Constable are able to enjoy a lovely weekend in the first of the...

Clearly, we need to dial up some more bandwidth. For the last few months we have all been behind the curve vis-à-vis the low hanging...

We all know her. We have seen her a thousand times in the rear-view mirror of our ageing lives. Because of her, we drive more carefully,...

‘Nowadays, manners are easy, and life is hard’ is what Disraeli said a hundred or so years ago. You reckon? Part of my plan for a...

The Cabinet Maker and I had cause to be in a car for a very long time today: four and a half hours there, and then four and a half hours...

Old ‘Chesty’ Puller of the US Marine Corps once described pain as ‘weakness leaving the body’. Begging his pardon, but, had he not...

I was run over in Midhurst today. Thank you for your concern, but I’m fine. It’s the second time I’ve been run over in Midhurst in the...

When we were small, my sister and I were cared for by one of two baby sitters when my parents went out for the evening. One was Rita...