Recent Blogs.- SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS AND RAINBOWS... September 14, 2020This 1965 Lesley Gore song kept on coming into my head this week on my relentless crusade to cheerfulness. But even I have to admit the next line was rather cheesy“Everything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're together.”Provided, that is, there aren’t more than six of us. I thought this rule of six […]
- GET RID OF LOCKDOWN LETHARGY September 7, 2020Yes, I’m back - a bit like Coronavirus. You thought I’d gone away and that my blogs were a thing of the past but here I am, exhaustingly cheerful and optimistic. Guardian readers must hate my jollity, marooned as they seem to be on an island of grim disapproval.First of all was my break good?It […]
- THE PAUSE August 17, 2020Richard is taking August off and will continue his blogs in September. Have fun in the meantime.
- ARE WE THERE YET? August 3, 2020No, this is our pause.First of all the good news.We are taking August off. Time to recharge. Learn to read copiously and properly. Walk a lot. Travel (close to home.) Sleep properly. And, sorry, a month free of blogs. ‘Thank God’ I hear you mutter.But before we go a few reflections.No, my dears, we are […]
- DRIVING TASTE July 27, 2020Drivers of taste… What is it that creates a craze? When I was in the toy trade I watched the overwhelming impact of licensed merchandise with agents selling the rights for Bond and Marvel and so on. Ordinary toys went to the back of the toy cupboard. In the late-1950s Connie Francis was no.1 pop singer with […]
- SUNSHINE, LOLLIPOPS AND RAINBOWS... September 14, 2020