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Well, that cold played havoc with my ambitious plans for reshaping the known world over the Easter weekend. I was reduced to lie...

On Friday I was invited and attended a school age football tournament in Gunnersbury Park. Good to watch for a bit and I congratulate the...

On Friday I started with a visit to the FoodBox place in Brickfield Close, behind Pets at Home. This was to pick up a bank card that the...

On Friday I had one of my periodic wanders around the ward, or a lot of it. To start it I made a very short walk onto my balcony. Soon...

When I was a yoof my dad was the owner of a small business. He called himself the Manager or Owner. It expanded a bit and he became known...

On Friday I went up to Layton Road to look at the work that had been promised by Hounslow Highway to clear the mess underneath the...

At some time during all this – my memory of dates is hazy, a bit like when I did History at school – I had a temp job at Honeywell in...

Yes, that was me. My school was literally next door to my home, but boarding was heavily encouraged for two reasons: being a day boy...

For some reason this website from time to time decided to turn my writing inside out. It annoys me. I quite like the normal green type on...

This blog was posted on my Facebook blog page but I had forgotten about this story, or that I had the Facebook page . I have resurrected...

As I said, not much happened this week. I was still in Brentford on Friday and Saturday but the only excitement (mild) was meeting with...

On Friday I attended a funeral at Mortlake Crematorium. This was for Sue Casey. Sue was a former teacher but whilst I have been active...

On Friday I had a brief meeting and a beer with a local man about problems with the back part of the old Charlton House, where it butts...

I won't bore you with old cars again this week, but I went on Friday to something called Race Retro. Surprisingly, old racing cars....

Well this has been a dispiritingly quiet week. I'm not sure whether this is because people are on holiday (certainly quite a number...

I was off to France (very) first thing on last Wednesday. Pleasant calm crossing to Calais and down the French Autoroutes to Paris. They...

I wrote this last year, and although it does not conflict with and Labour policy it caused some upset amongst the top politicians in...

This will be a very short one because a) I have not done much this week b) I am going on a short break in Paris looking at old cars,...

Very quiet week for me, one way and another. Brentford West is a fairly quiet ward compared to the old huge Brentford ward so I get less...

It feels quite weird to be using that title. I have had difficulty with 'Daddy' since I was a teenager, though my sisters, both older...