Photos of most of these items are to be found on Gum Tree. Post Code Area BN18. Any enquiries and requests for photographs contact mike51143@hotmail.com Measurements are in Inches. Cupboard with carved front & mirror. Height (H) 72, Width (W) 30, Depth (D) 14,5 Harrods Wardrobe C 1928 H 69, D 20, W 48 Chest …
Accomplished artist and former Gunner, Syd Carr, has kindly immortalised Frank who has now joined a panoply of artwork https://www.pinterest.co.uk/sydneycarr5/syd-carrs-carrtoons-doodles-and-sketches/
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Letters to the Press on a wide range of matters fly through the interweb from my PC like rounds from a Multi Launch Rocket System. However if they do reach their intended target there is seldom any reaction and publication rarely results. So it’s back to the drawing-board with my old school motto ringing in …
Thoughts that have been universally ignored……………….. Read More »
My name is Abbie, I was a Royal Navy Medic for over 15 years and leave this year to pursue a career as a freelance coach. And as the wonders (and perils) of coaching are being discussed more and more, I was asked to provide some guidance on this emerging industry. Now, I am by …
COACHING – Gym shorts and whistles not required…. Read More »
The Age of (In) Equality? The contents of a recent piece in the Daily Telegraph entitled The Age of Equality may have led many readers to believe that the swingometer of sexual equality is certainly on the move. The nub of the article was: “Serial drink-driver spared jail because she is a woman” (NB. The …
It would be unwise to underestimate the importance of choosing the right word. Often the inability to make the appropriate selection is a vocabulary deficit but there are other reasons such as laziness and a curious imperative to impress by using a ‘clever’ word. As a tactless communicator, I frequently regret my choice of words …
Below is a collection of recent letters to the Daily Telegraph (DT) that all failed to impress the Editor and probably anybody else for that matter: A Real Tonic Oh good! After four years of debate the European Commission has ruled that Britain can keep the name ‘Tonic’. Many will be wondering what …
How Will We Survive Without Nanny EU To Guide Us & Other Questions? Read More »
Where’s the F in News? Television and Radio critic Jemima Lewis concludes her piece on the Radio 4 programme Where’s the F in News? (Daily Telegraph 13th March 2019) with this: “It [Where’s the F in News?] was feeble both as entertainment and as a feminist statement: an object lesson in the perils of formulaic, …
Oh goodie! After four years of debate the European Commission (EU) has ruled that Britain can keep the name ‘Tonic’. Many will be wondering what other vital investigations are being expensively pursued by the politically directed EU bureaucrats while the rest of the world is worrying about such trivial issues as climate change, fair trade …