Tomorrow is my dad’s birthday. What do you get for a man on the ninth of the ninth of the ninth? A ride in a fire engine? A scale model of a Ford Anglia squad car, with flashing lights and fully pose-able parts? If he were 99, I might consider it. But he’s 72. I […]

It’s a mystery to me that anyone has bothered to read this – especially as I made no special attempt to publicise it’s arrival in the bloggosphere. The fact that people have found it is testament, I guess, to people’s natural curiosity and their ability to hunt down like-mindedness in the ether. What I hadn’t […]