Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Hair

I really am not very good with managing my hair .. I guess I’m so busy thinking of other things or doing other things it comes fairly low on my list of priorities. I also think my hair conspires against me, and I have always enjoyed this story, which may be apocryphal, about the politician Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of […]

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Poor Spain

Earlier this evening I posted about a lovely holiday we had a couple of years ago in Spain; we were with good friends, we had good weather  we ate well, drank well, had a brilliant time. Everywhere looked smart and clean, everyone seemed happy and doing well… but that was several years ago. I was listening to The World Tonight, just after […]

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