Archive sections: ‘Me’

There is an old saying the The camera never lies … but I am not so sure … In the “good old days”, photographs were taken on film, (which was a precious commodity), and time was required to develop the negatives and print the final product.  To get a succesful photograph one had to take […]

Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 at 06:00 4 comments. »

I passed a milestone last year … I was 60 - sixty years old, that is. I didn’t, however, make too much of a fuss about it … I made more of an effort at 30 - the so-called, dangerous age, 40 - the onset of middle-age after which, (at, least, according to the advertisers), you need “fortifying” […]

Thursday, January 9th, 2014 at 07:00 0 comments. »

I came across an interesting piece of research the other day.  It is not new research – it dates back to 2008, but it has only just crossed my path. It reported that, although most Americans have moved away from home to a new community at least once in their life … about 40% settle down […]

Thursday, September 5th, 2013 at 07:00 0 comments. »

I always joke that whereas I have “the body of a weak and feeble sexagenarian,” (having recently celebrated – if that’s the right word – my sixtieth birthday), inside I still “have the heart and stomach” of an eighteen year old, (to misquote Elizabeth I’s speech to the troops at Tilbury). Like most people as […]

Friday, July 26th, 2013 at 07:00 0 comments. »

As I have approached a new milestone in my life, I have had to learn a new phrase in Kyrgyz: Men altymysh zhashtamyn - I am 60 years old … today. In Kyrgyzstan it is very common to ask someone personal details when meeting them for the first time: how old they are, if they are married […]

Friday, March 8th, 2013 at 07:00 Comments Off

I know that it is a bit late, but we have been doing some “spring cleaning”.  Actually, it’s more of a “clear out” than “spring cleaning”.  Over the course of time, things that aren’t needed on a day-to-day basis tend to get put to one side, in a drawer of an shelf in a cupboard, […]

Friday, July 27th, 2012 at 07:00 Comments Off

Tom

Tom, the youngest of the kittens has a loud mew and a very demanding character. We think that someone abandoned him when he was only a few months old, possibly because of his mew and possibly because he hadn’t been properly house trained … something I think we have finally dealt with.  We are not […]

Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 07:00 Comments Off

Today, January 13th, as well as being Stariy Noviy God, (“Old New Year”), marks the anniversary of the death in 1625, of Jan Brueghel the Elder.  He was one of a whole dynasty of artists called Brueghel, (including Peter the Younger, Jan the Elder and Jan the Younger), and he was the son of Peter […]

Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 07:00 Comments Off

Every now and again I sitting working, or in a meeting, and the peace and quiet is disturbed by a sudden noise as someone’s mobile telephone bursts into life. If it happens to be in a meeting, then a set frowns usually erupt on the faces of the participants – so I always try to […]

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 at 07:00 Comments Off

Maxim, one of the “baseball kids” that I have written about before, has been quite creative recently. For one thing, he has started calling himself Maxim Claytor.  This is not something I have encouraged – but he is using it as a sort of “pen name” when it comes to setting up an email account […]

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 07:00 Comments Off