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Living Without Regrets

Gehan2020-07-27T20:21:33+00:00July 27th, 2020|

The enforced isolation of the last few months has been a time for taking stock. Our relationships, the nature of work, ...

Gehan2020-04-02T15:44:15+00:00April 1st, 2020|

A couple of chaps were driving around on a Sunday evening looking for toilet paper - they were planning on cornering the ...

Gehan2019-11-06T21:34:12+00:00November 6th, 2019|

Red meat is good for you. A team of respected mathematicians examined the same research that some vegetarians used to co ...

Gehan2019-05-29T22:21:50+00:00May 29th, 2019|

My nostrils twitched as I entered the Chelsea Flower Show. The pollen count was overwhelming. The old chap next to me s ...

Gehan2019-05-29T23:01:22+00:00May 14th, 2019|

I was passing through Oxford Circus when I found the road blocked by protesters from Extinction Rebellion; environmental ...

Gehan2018-03-29T14:41:38+00:00March 4th, 2018|

When you grow up in a cold grey place and have to endure six months without sunshine, it is difficult to resist the temp ...

Gehan2017-10-29T23:32:15+00:00October 29th, 2017|

Is this the best burger in London? The meat is organic from grass fed cows, butchered by virgins on a full moon. The f ...

Gehan2017-11-08T10:10:53+00:00October 29th, 2017|

The bright young thing tripping happily down an aisle in the Brixton Market can’t see the dishevelled man waiting in amb ...

Gehan2017-09-15T21:02:22+00:00September 15th, 2017|

Yashin Ocean House is a Japanese gem tucked away in an unprepossessing corner of the Old Brompton Road. The decor is st ...

Gehan2017-07-10T23:19:02+00:00July 1st, 2017|

I recently experienced a curry fuelled, Alice in Wonderland afternoon, with a roomful of splendid eccentrics who wish to ...

Gehan2017-06-12T19:14:04+00:00June 12th, 2017|

I don't know what to make of the results of the British elections. The chap who lost is considered to have won (the Brit ...

Gehan2017-04-13T17:37:05+00:00April 13th, 2017|

The British are an island people with strange habits. One of them is to picnic inside the family car. A British family w ...