Category Archives: The stuff of daily life

The drivetime news was so annoying that I put a CD on to play. The Killers – I saw them in concert in June and the music conjured memories of summer days. The Killers have become bracketed in my memory … Continue reading →

What age would he have been forty years ago? There is a photograph of Dr Michael Richards in Wetlands, Patrick Sutherland and Adam Nicolson’s 1986 book on life in the Somerset levels. Already his tight curls seemed more grey than … Continue reading →

The world’s end was flagged up by the departure of the dolphins in Douglas Adams’ So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. The dolphins disappear from planet, leaving no more than a note to humanity thanking it for the … Continue reading →

The Prix de  l’Arc de Triomphe will be run next Sunday. One Sunday in October, perhaps thirty years ago, I won money on that race. My gambling habit ran to £1 a week, my neighbour used to collect people’s football … Continue reading →

I like the word ‘vortex,’ it has about it much more a sense of excitement than is conveyed by its definition in the realm of physics. A friend attended Sussex University at the end of the 1970s. They were times … Continue reading →