Low life

Low life

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

From somewhere in the tree canopy, a nightingale song. The virtuoso trilling and warbling, the underwater bubbling, the teetering on…

Low life

21 May 2015 1:00 pm

From somewhere in the tree canopy, a nightingale song. The virtuoso trilling and warbling, the underwater bubbling, the teetering on…

Low life

16 May 2015 9:00 am

I’ve been on two cruises before: one was fun, the other misery. The misery one was a late August cruise…

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14 May 2015 1:00 pm

I’ve been on two cruises before: one was fun, the other misery. The misery one was a late August cruise…

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14 May 2015 1:00 pm

I’ve been on two cruises before: one was fun, the other misery. The misery one was a late August cruise…

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9 May 2015 9:00 am

The old fishing town faced the sea psychically as well as architecturally. Dressed as pirates, my grandson and I walked…

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7 May 2015 1:00 pm

The old fishing town faced the sea psychically as well as architecturally. Dressed as pirates, my grandson and I walked…

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7 May 2015 1:00 pm

The old fishing town faced the sea psychically as well as architecturally. Dressed as pirates, my grandson and I walked…

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2 May 2015 9:00 am

Two stylists work at this deeply rural French ladies’ hairdresser. Christelle is a gorgeous 17-year-old point-of-lay pullet, so lithe and…

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30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Two stylists work at this deeply rural French ladies’ hairdresser. Christelle is a gorgeous 17-year-old point-of-lay pullet, so lithe and…

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25 April 2015 9:00 am

I’m such a constitutional lightweight lately that I’ve started looking on the website What’s On in South Devon for things…

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18 April 2015 9:00 am

To say that Oscar was warmly welcomed as he stepped through the massive oak door into a chilly House of…

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11 April 2015 9:00 am

Spectator Life’s third birthday party was a glamorous affair. It had paps, pop stars and Pippa. One went in and…

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4 April 2015 9:00 am

The pub was disappointingly empty, so I took my first pint of the evening upstairs, where some sort of New…

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28 March 2015 9:00 am

I’m watching Manchester City being taken to the cleaners by Barcelona on the telly, while at the table behind me…

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21 March 2015 9:00 am

For the Cheltenham Festival I received the customary tipster circular from my pal Soapy Joe. Soapy’s most convincing credential as…

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14 March 2015 9:00 am

It’s a silly, chippy complex, I know, but I often feel, on the rare occasions that I am induced to…

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7 March 2015 9:00 am

Frantic chewing of sugar-coated nicotine gum had caused my left lower molar to go irretrievably rotten, and the dentist finally…

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28 February 2015 9:00 am

Last week was the tenth anniversary of the last running of the English hare-coursing classic, the Waterloo Cup. I shan’t…

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21 February 2015 9:00 am

This hotel is brand new. One half is a university students’ hostel, the other an apartment hotel. Car parking is…

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14 February 2015 9:00 am

My grandson and I had a lovely hour-long swim at the leisure centre. We had the learner pool to ourselves…

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7 February 2015 9:00 am

This month’s wine club lecture was on red burgundy. The members were settling themselves at two large tables when I…

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31 January 2015 9:00 am

I’m rubbish at public speaking and detest it. Even the thought of reciting an English poem of my choice at…

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24 January 2015 9:00 am

The taxi-driver wound his window one third of the way down and put a priestlike, confessional ear to the freezing…

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17 January 2015 9:00 am

The hotel and its bright tan prayer rug of a beach were one. In the early morning the distant image…