Singapore Sling

London bound again this time on Singapore Airlines.  I am looking forward to visiting Singapore again as I used to have a close association with it, but I have not been there for nearly 30 years.  When I first started my career a long, long time ago, Singapore...

Les Vacances Francaises

In the Australian Financial Review this week I read an article that the French have four public holidays in May.  According to a French intellectual this is because ‘we live in a country where obligations are imposed on citizens because they are not consumers first. ...

A Mixed Mad March

So Mad March is over.  The Festival and the Fringe are gone, and the Writers’ Festival never was, much to my dismay.  It is such a rich source of material with the bien-pensant, like geese, being force-fed more of what they already believe. The echo chamber would have...

A hole in one

Last week I was invited to lunch at a golf club.  Not my usual hangout but as a writer seeking source material I always give something a go.  To be fair I have played a few rounds of golf in the past but gave up as somehow it did not have the physical contact I was...

On the Naughty List…again

It is a little-known fact that I once worked for the BBC.  It was only for two weeks and I like to think that I was filling in for the Governor-General.  I forget his name so he cannot have been that important.  In fact, I worked in the Record Library and was filling...