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No Sound Bites
According to a British travel agent visiting South Africa, today’s British tourists are no longer intrepid. They are not a patch on their explorer ancestors who came to Africa – Englishmen… more →
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No Sound Bites
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: According to a British travel agent visiting South Africa, today’s British tourists are no lon … more →
Loosening up the Brits
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: A Springbok rugby player has been quoted as saying the English are a “stuffy people”. B … more →
Getting stung is more than a wee problem
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: An acquaintance recently told me his dog likes nothing better than to be taken round the block to … more →
Densa's Extraordinary Annual Meeting
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: I called the meeting to order. It was not a very big turn-out – especially for a club with so … more →
No such thing as a free lunch
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: It was Bosses’ Day on Friday. I’d never heard of it until I sensed Threnody, head secret … more →
Flying and the Art of Staying Up
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: I have always enjoyed history. If you think history lacks humour then you haven’t heard of … more →
Enclosed, one child, please find
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: Dateline London – A plan to postcode children so that, if lost, they can be delivered home … more →
James Bond - the truth
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: I saw an old James Bond movie on television recently and it reminded me of the words of the French d … more →
HER MAJESTY PAYS HER MAJESTY
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: It was only in the 1990s that the Queen of England agreed to pay personal income tax – a for … more →
WHEN LOVE IS IN THE EAR
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: A small child wrote: “Everyone is a human bean.” Yes, that’s us – black, … more →
SCHOOLS - A SPECIAL INVESTIGATION
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: One of the most dangerous things a schoolteacher can do is ask pupils to write what they think of … more →
THE GIRL IN THE RAIN
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: It was pouring again. Lightning picked at the cityscape.Nobody in the scurrying, home-going crowd … more →
THE LAST ELEPHANTS IN ENGLAND
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: Some may wonder how it was that I became the modest L*E*A*D*E*R of the Yellow Six patrol in the 1st … more →
MARKING SECRETARIES' DAY
James Clarke wrote 1 year ago: What with the strike in the public service and Secretaries’ Day coinciding last week, busine … more →
