I look at some things and think its " I think its best if I sit this one out" - if it's not your call =, if its not your decision to make - why get upset about it?  Why get involved ?

Pass the Parcel - the children's party game: when the music stops the child holding the parcel can unwrap the next layer of wrapping paper. The game goes on until at last the gift or prize is revealed.Its the perfect training for that we...

I'm not entirely sure that some of these IT wizards are particularly good at teaching us old dinosaurs how to use these up to date systems. I never fail to come away from an IT training session feeling utterly stupid and useless.

Most people have a vulnerable part of their nature somewhere - however, well hidden.

Like Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada perhaps.

VE Day celebrations were mainly about the Second World War and "victory" against the Nazi regime. The most powerful images of war are for me the war poets, I've never been in the armed forces and I like to think I would have had the...

Here's the Wikipedia bit "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is a phrase describing the persuasive power of statistics to bolster weak

“You’re not going to like this, but recycling doesn’t begin to address the problem. You can only recycle plastic a couple of times. And what you’ve got to do is stop the production of plastic, stop the first use of plastic. Recycling is a red h...

Retrospective bravery is a wonderful thing....

DIY. I love it - If I'm honest - I'm not very good at it - but I love trying. It often takes me longer and costs more than it would have getting someone in to do the work who actually knows what they're doing - but who's counting ?

This tune confuses the Dustin Hoffman/Laurence Olivier film Marathon Man with the escape route Eichmann may have taken as he travelled to Argentina before he was eventually kidnapped by Mossad and taken to Israel where he was tried and subseque...

Maintain a steady course, don't upset things, settle for a compromise. accept second best .... Why ?

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is a 2018 book by journalist Michael Wolff.It is about Trumps first term in office.I'm not convince...

A boxing term - when things are looking bad and the boxer stuck on the ropes just can't get away from the pounding he or she is taking. There is still a huge amount of activity but it just doesn't seem to make anything any better. Its very hard...

I STILL listen endlessly to radio 4 - Broadcasting House with its presenter Paddy O'Connell is a highlight in the listening calendar for me each Sunday morning. 

One of the sports events I enjoy watching on TV is the London Marathon - particularly the charity side of it. This year two of the Dads of the Southport children so brutally killed at a Taylor Swift dance event ran - very brave - and in memory ...

Antonio Lauro was a great Venezuelan guitarist/composer whose waltzes are a wonderful part of the guitars repertoire.I composed a piece in a latin style called Lost Children to which I 've added two short sections of Lauro's Venezuelan W...

The impending trade war seems to bring out the usual phlegmatic practicality from the China set up - They look as though they couldn't give a hoot . Bring it on Trumpy. The theme in this one is from the China Crisis album Flaunt the...

Joaquim Malats piece Serenata Espanola is the starting point for this tune. I want to record, as part of this "archive", a selection of Spanish 19th century pieces - Malats, Albeniz, Granados and then some of the Catalan Folk tunes arranged by ...

This phrase means at an early stage - so I'm told. In the spring/summer this is the best time of day - after the dawn chorus and before anyone is up - lovely 

The M5 on a Friday afternoon in the summer - looking forward to it 

A reluctance to push forward with an idea an opportunity or a project- apparently.

Apparently the expression "On the QT" means "On the quiet" I thought it was much more sinister than that..

As we approach the celebration of 80 years since Victory in Europe on May 8th 1945 ( VE Day) at the end of the Second World War - the passage of time is really quite stark. Looking at the old news reel and you realise it was a very different wo...

Rhyming couplets - if you get yourself locked in to the rhyme it can be a pretty horrible experience - as the song shows.