What’s My Line?

You may have read that YouTube gets more views than all traditional broadcast networks, except the BBC, in the UK. It appeals to younger viewers but do not be dismayed.

Tokyo Vice

“The pipe that Detective Chief Inspector Maigret lit on coming out of his door in Boulevard Richard-Lenoir was even more delicious than usual. The first fog of the season was as pleasant a surprise as the first snow for children, especially when it was not that nasty yellowish fog you see on certain winter days,… Continue reading Tokyo Vice

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No Overall Control

There are 136 councils in England, Scotland and Wales. If you heed the media it appears the Reform party had a landslide victory on Thursday. I beg to differ.

Psychobabble

I thought that might get your attention. I was at my new favourite, small London museum yesterday – Freud’s house in Hampstead.

Tech and Trivia

I should go to an overworked NHS doctor for a check-up occasionally but, as with the car and gas boiler, I wait for something to go wrong. This website does gets a check-up; it comes with the rations as us old soldiers say.

Blazer and Cords

I have made two additions to my wardrobe this year; red corduroy trousers and a blazer.

Bins and Potholes

On Thursday, if the media is to be believed, there will be a reset in the political landscape in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Childish Things

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (1 Corinthians 13:11, King James Version)