As TNC regulars know, I often visit and write about Crete, where I was lucky/ foresighted enough to buy a tiny traditional village house over twenty years ago, for the (then) price of a new car. Staying there for weeks at a time (EU permitting), I always digitally detox. Occasionally in the evenings, however, I […]
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Dear Regional Enforcement Manager, How very nice to hear from you again – and so soon! I loved the red envelope, very chic, and also receiving proper letters delivered by Royal Mail rather than impersonal emails or texts. Your signatures really do add a warm human touch and show that you aren’t just another anonymous
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Much as I admired the calm common sense of the WPC who took no nonsense from some ‘offended Moslems’ in the East End: Offended by a Christian preacher. Called the police. Literally cannot get it into their heads that in England it is not a crime to say something they might not like about
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TNC readers may remember that I sometimes write about Greece, specifically the island of Crete. Recently, I’ve signed up for a free daily newsfeed from something called ‘Greek Reporter’ (http://www.greekreporter.com) and enjoy scrolling through the half dozen or more Hellenic-focused articles – maybe reading one or two that catch my interest. I was intrigued –
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Is this an official order to self-declare yourself as being on the wrong side of the law? If only the Police had time to investigate, arrest, bang you to rights and then fine you or the Crown Prosecution Service choose to send you to Court (or perhaps issue a Lammyesque Jury-free automatic sentence)? Presumably it
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It finally happened; I turn 66 today, but please don’t worry about sending me a birthday card. I’m officially an OAP, in receipt of a generous (ha, ha!) UK State Pension. I’m grateful to have reached this milestone, despite the best efforts of the powers that be and the NHS. By proactively making additional National
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For years, I’ve enjoyed a quick lunch composed of a tin of Heinz Scotch Broth (the most ‘homemade’ tasting of all their soup offerings) with a smoked pork sausage i.e. the brown shiny curled ones that come in a vacuum pack inside a foil outer package, cut up into chunks and added to the soup.
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I’ll state upfront that I have no medical qualifications or particular in-depth knowledge / experience of medicine, or even of the NHS as a real patient for many years now. Why this disclaimer? Well mainly because what follows is my own supposition, sparked by an unexpected phone call from my GP’s Surgery last week. Back
Picture this – after waiting for what seems like an hour (probably in reality though only fifteen minutes, but of sheer neck-cricked Hell) you finally get from your seat in row 18 through the front door of a Jet2 plane and onto the tarmac into a packed shuttle bus. Next, you’re waiting in an endless
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Unless you’re prepared to put yourself to significant extra expense and hassle, then getting to your chosen destination in EU Land inevitably means using the nearest regional airport and whichever ‘budget’ airline flies from there. Sadly, up North these days there Is usually no other choice. Here up North, unless prepared to endure the hell
A Flight to Remember Read More »
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