20th July 2008 So… how’s retirement going, you ask? Well, imagine stepping into your golden years with the elegance of a swan… only to be immediately sideswiped by a freight train of Yellow Fever. The vaccine I had the previous Friday (marketed cheerfully as “a mild dose that might make you feel a little under… Continue Reading

15th July 2008 In 1958, aged five, my mother took me by the hand to Thurcroft Infants School for my very first school day. Fifty years later, having never quite escaped the gravitational pull of education, I walked out of Farndon Fields Primary School for what may be the final time. With all the farewells… Continue Reading