Years of getting established, buying homes, bringing up children, coping with Fleet Street – the London one – managing global airlines, organising...
Author - John Clemison
One of the principal reasons for my decision to retire to Torbay was the air quality. Let’s face it, when you’ve spent the first 20-odd years of your...
Wake up and smell the tea Hands up if you’ve ever owned a Goblin Teasmade. That gets rid of the over-70s. Now, hands up if you don’t care what a...
When I was but knee-high to a grasshopper, I used to dream of being a cricketer. Not just any old cricketer, but an opening batsman. I would stride...
Some years back, the influence of a celebrated TV cook called Delia Smith was so great that her impact on the sales of things ended up as a phrase in...
Years ago, in Manchester, I used to run a battered old Mini. But I actually wasn’t the one who did most of the battering. It just kept getting stolen...
RYLA opportunity Babbacombe & St Marychurch President Sian Doyle is again promoting this year’s Rotary Young Leadership Awards (RYLA), which runs...
When I was very young, there was a popular doo-wop song called “Who wears short shorts?“ Ok, the lyrics weren’t that inventive – in fact 18 of the 19...
Suddenly, disabled sport is headline news. It never used to be that way. Forty years ago, the first chief sub I ever worked for, a grand old man at...
