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Thank You For The Music

During lockdown, lots of people have been doing this 'name your top ten albums of all time' stunt on Facebook; and I've been very tempted...

Alex Kelly @90

On Sunday 30th June, Alexander Kelly, father of Catriona Kelly and me, Grandfather of Alex Davan-Wetton and Millie Davan-Wetton, would...

Lights On And Bell Rings

Four weeks after arriving in Shenzhen, I just about got the hang my subway journey to work. Just as I had to leave. It wasn't so much...

My Passionate Affair

If you have been following these blogs so far, you could be forgiven for thinking that I'm spending my entire time in China eating, or...

New Perspectives

It's official: I'm huge in China. By this, I don't mean that the average Chinese person knows about me; I mean that I am quite literally...

Lost In Translation

I've been in China for a week; and in that time, the thing I am most struck by, is the vastness of the place. I look out of my window on...

Stap Me Vitals, It's An Ironing Board...

It's 4am and I'm awake. Yesterday I was awake at 3am, and on both days I woke wanting my supper; because I'm acutely jet-lagged, and my...

Untitled

When I was growing up in the '60s, my mother used to read Good Housekeeping magazine. This is amazing in several ways: One, that my...

Untitled

Being at school in London during the '70s had something of an iconic feel to it. Retrospectively that is; at the time, it was just...

Forever In Blue Jeans

Vatican Two re-calibrated the Roman Catholic demographic worldwide; but at the time, I was unaware of that. I was simply very grateful...

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