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 […]
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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]