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My grand daughter is about to take her driving test. It is 60 years since I passed mine and, touch wood, I’ve had an uneventful driving career. It is harder for young people nowadays. They have the hurdle of the theory test ( an example of which I recently had a go at on line,…
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I have just bought my new diary for 2027. I am still one of those people who prefers to use a paper pocket diary. I know that the rest of the world seems to have gone electronic but deep down I don’t trust electronic calendars. Gadgets can go wrong, phones and tablets can be hacked…
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I’ve always had an interest in joints since I started Medical School in 1966. No, not cannabis which I have never used, but the structure and workings of the human skeleton. I think it was due to the way the curriculum was structured in Liverpool where we spent the first year studying anatomy, and painstakingly…
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Pubs are in the news a lot at the moment- largely stories of pubs closing and the battle to make any profit. I’ve always liked pubs but the pub landscape has changed dramatically since I were a lad, as we say up North. In the 1950s when I grew up, pubs were mysterious places, largely…
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I have always had an interest in farming. Surprisingly for one who grew up in a small industrial town in Lancashire – which had 5 working coal mines and 2 cotton mills, we were always close to farms. Urban sprawl from Manchester had not arrived and we were surrounded by farmland – mainly arable and…
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The journey through old age is a series of milestones, each with its own significance. Retirement, loss of a spouse, the day you realise that a low seated sports car is not for you, or the day you realise you have to sit down to put socks on! To me each milestone is interesting in…
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I am about to go on another train journey. I love trains and railway stations. Before you jump to conclusions I am not a train spotter. You will not find me at the end of platform 4 in Carlisle with my camera and thermos flask. I just like travelling by train. Now that I am…
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We seem to be becoming a lot less kind and gentle as a nation. Passive aggression and overt aggression seems to be seen everywhere. When I was growing up in the fifties we were taught to be kind and courteous. Yes there were always bullies about but I don’t remember the extreme nastinesses that young…
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So how did you get on with the armageddon which was 3 days of sunny weather last week.? I find myself not only being classed as an Old Lad but a Vulnerable adult. So according to the advice from HM Government I should have been holed up in my house in my string vest with…
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This week I have reached another milestone in the journey as an Old Lad. I am writing a new will. My current Will is over 30 years old so I decided it was time for a refresh. It’s not a complicated Will – I have 3 children so what earthly possessions I have will be…
