Old Lad
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I’ve been a member of Rotary for over twenty years. It followed on from being a member of Round Table when I was under 40. The reasons I joined these organisations was twofold. Firstly it was a way of socialising with people from outside my own profession – doctors can be a bit tedious because…
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I’m just back from a reunion with a group I was at Medical school with. It marks 60 year since we all started at Liverpool and 55 years since we all graduated. There were 11 of us plus some partners. It set me thinking what is it that keeps us all in touch and enjoying…
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So the Arctic adventures are over and I have to say it was everything I hoped it would be. I can recommend Havila ships as the way to travel – excellent service and food, and the added advantage that being ferries they can get into the small fjords that big cruise ships can’t. I was…
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So here’s a first. I am blogging from inside the Arctic Circle! It’s now 7 days into a voyage up and down the Norwegian Coast and round the North Cape. I know it’s traditional when age sets in to start going on cruises. But to be honest I have never fancied being cooped up with…
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What is it about our country that we tolerate litter and rubbish everywhere? I walk my dog each day up the small road we live on, and the verges and hedgerows are full of litter, most of it having been thrown from passing vehicles. The nerd that I now am in old age has carried…
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Like most of us I suspect I embraced the age of the digital camera and the convenience it brought to photography. I remember the days of the old film cameras. The ritual of taking the film out after a holiday, posting it off to a processing laboratory and then waiting with trepidation to see which…
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So here we are at 2026. To quote John Major when he became Prime Minister – “Who would have thought it!”. This year marks two milestones in my journey through old age. In the Summer when I reach 78 I will be the longest living person on the paternal side of my family. The maternal…
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So here we are again – Christmas Eve! Am I excited- well not really. I must confess that for a long time I have had mixed feelings about Christmas. It probably started when I qualified in Medicine and had to endure the false jollity of Christmas on the Ward. On the surface the public reckoned…
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It’s been very windy up north. Yesterday, however, I received advice which was life changing. The RAC no less published advice that when I am driving when it is windy, I should slow down and hold firmly on to the steering wheel. Well who would have thought it! I don’t know if it is a…
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One of the questions you get asked after retirement is “What do you do all day?” Its an interesting one and if I stop to think about it I do indeed ask myself what do I do? There’s all sorts of expectations about if you read the literature on retirement, much of it engendering a…
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