So, I am home! In immortal words, often used by me: “Honey I am Home”. Personal Driver, (what and where would I be without him) met me at the airport, rather essential since he had…
Just when you think that nothing else could go wrong, something does. Yesterday the joy was An Arabic Adventure, complete with camels and sand dunes, and food and dance. However, I tripped on the carpet…
Well, things are coming to a close and this is a message to Personal Driver, I arrive at SFO on January 21, 2020 at 13:10 – after a flight from hell – about seventeen hours….
I am here in Dubai having breakfast in a huge French restaurant. Began with a raspberry smoothie and then scrambled eggs with marrow. Unbelievably good But here is the weirdest part. There are only three…
That pretty much describes what happened. At the lowest point, when I arrived at this hotel at about three in the morning feeling awful, I did think about killing myself. I wept and wept and…
As we all know things have not been cheery recently, what with the Australian fires, Trump killing the wrong person the wrong person at the wrong time, Iran filing missiles into airplanes accidentally. My goodness,…
First of all, what is Unusual. It is an adjective whose synonyms are: abnormal, atypical, unexpected, surprising, unfamiliar, unwonted, different; strange, odd, curious, out of the ordinary, extraordinary, out of the way, unorthodox, uncustomary, unconventional,…
Well…..lots going on here in the UK during my presence. Now there is the furor over Prince Harry and his American wife: To quote the press: “ One exasperated aide said: ‘People had bent over…
Recent news from CPI identifies the quote of yesterday’s blog: She: “Kiss the moon …” quote is from a play, appropriately Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun, by Norm Foster, a rather minor but very…
The New Yorker has an interesting article’”A World Without Pain” where the function of pain in the human condition is explored. It is a fascinating idea, and to quote from the article: ‘: But what…