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I am (now – I was 40 when this started) a 50-year-old sometime University bureaucrat, living in the Leicestershire countryside. I share a home with my wife, SWK, an actor and designer, and our scruffy dogs, Milo and Mara. As you’ll see from my first Blog post (scroll all-the-way-down-the-main-page-I’m -afraid-I-don’t-really-do-short-commentaries), it was originally my wife’s idea entirely to inflict my life story (or elements thereof) on you.

A cheery liberal and general fan of the human race at heart, I nevertheless suffer with grumpiness, frustration, and serial bouts of hideous incompetence at things that the rest of the world seems to do so blessedly easily. I was 39 before I briefly climbed a tree for the first time, for example.

Others things will emerge. Befriend me on Facebook or even ‘Insta’, if you like, as there’s a growing amount of stuff on there about my often rather quizzical and misguided life. This place, I am reserving for slightly longer re-telling of some of the stories of my life, most of which should provide some tongue-in-cheek amusement, if only for me. As of 2024, and this revision of my mission statement, some of those stories have been used in a book, titled Lunch in Moldova? which you can buy on Amazon, should you be so minded.

Next month (December 2024) will see me issue forth a second volume, titled ‘Fifty’. A short time ago, I released the Prologue to that book on here: FIFTY – PROLOGUE

Just to get your curiosity glands juicing, let me share with you the following facts:

• I once kissed the Archbishop of Canterbury
• I once came second on Fifteen-to-One (no tapes survive, alas)
• I have twice run away from a gaggle of prostitutes
• I still don’t know what the collective noun for prostitutes is

Have fun (well, some fun)

Chris x