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Another birthday and all is well

This week it is my birthday. A good time to reflect on my life. At the personal level, life is exceptionally good. Dorothy and I are now home alone – the kids happily off doing their own things. We are lucky they are both within 40 miles so we still see them regularly. I do [...]

A New Year & A Good Read

Two weeks into January already. 2012 has arrived and I have now stopped using 2011 every time I write a date! Festivities are over and it’s back to reality. Or at least it is for most people. Me? I’m lucky. I can live in a world of my own making, my own choosing where the [...]

Christmas and Status Quo

Christmas is approaching, and approaching fast. The time gap between last Christmas and this is shorter than in previous years. This fact I have become aware of each year for about the last ten. Is there anybody else who has found the same? Which means, come this Christmas, Christmas 2012 will be around Easter time. [...]

Nero fiddles while Rome burns

Nero fiddles while Rome burns during the great fire of AD64. This saying is apt for 2011. Except we are watching Europe implode as our politicians make one wrong decision after another. The vast majority of us have been aware for years that huge problems were looming ahead. Problems that will overwhelm us and will [...]

No other generation will experience such changes

I was born in 1950. In those days we had a party line telephone – two households to one line. Most communications were by letter or postcard or, if it was an emergency, by telegram. Today, contact is worldwide and virtually instantaneous. Not only can we speak but we can see each other. When I [...]

Paul Interviewed by Wales Online

By Robin Turner THERE is a touch of James Bond about Welsh thriller writer Paul Henke’s military background. He became a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy, had adventures around the world as an underwater explosives expert and survived a machine gun attack by the IRA. But unlike 007, Paul prefers a drop of whiskey [...]