Category Archives: Lifestyle

This is a guest post from a former colleague and good friend Paul Pasquale. He addresses a serious issue – possibly a life-or–death issue for some of us. The story starts in January 2019 when Paul was 51 and was … Continue reading →

I’ve been considering stopping drinking alcohol for months now. Not necessarily forever, but for at least a few weeks, and afterwards, probably never returning to my pre-abstinence levels. What has prompted these cataclysmic thoughts?  A number of things really – … Continue reading →

Euro 2016 kicks off in France tomorrow (Friday June 10), and despite a warning against travel from the UK Foreign Office, I’ll be on plane to Marseilles at the same time France take on Romania in the opening game – how rufty-tufty, … Continue reading →

The other day I received a flyer through my door.  It was from a local estate agent telling me they had sold a house.  “Well look at you, cupcake, aren’t you doing well for yourself.”  Isn’t that your entire reason … Continue reading →

Recently I attended the funeral of an old college friend.  ‘Old’ if mid-50s qualifies for that epithet, ‘college’ because that’s undoubtedly where we met but ‘friend’ – what exactly does that mean? We were certainly friends at college.  We shared … Continue reading →