Englishmen in New York
From an environmental point of view, I wasn’t scoring any Brownie points. The flight across the Atlantic from Miami was…
Fatherhood
Top job
The Watergate Bay tapes
Three days a week, I did the school run. We climbed in to the car and the trip lasted 45…
Hungry and thirsty and watchery
All E’s sayings The Tomorrow Club.
Old school
On 21 January this year, my old housemaster, Guy Shuttleworth, died, aged 94. He lived only a few miles from…
Glue sniffing on the touchline
I am 8. It is 6 May 1972. Allan Clarke just headed the only goal of the match to hand…
A coral cradle
The instructor pointed at my son, gently swimming over the wreck of the WWII US warship 3 metres below us,…
Sons of Sparta
“Where are you from?” enquires the mayor of Olympia. My son tells him we are from Brighton. We expect a…
Second time around – the benefits of being a father again
I have a three year old daughter. I also have a 26 year old son, a 24 year old son…
Catching the last flight
The Vulcan bomber. Possibly the most beautiful military aircraft ever built. Certainly the noisiest. It was the aircraft which patrolled…