Each year when we finished our exams at university we wanted to eat out to celebrate. The first year we went to a steak restaurant, where I complained that the knives were too blunt. To illustrate it I ran one across the palm of my hand. Some people in our group missed it, so IContinue reading “All my powers waste away”
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But the heart it yearns
After the truly awful PE2 exams (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/10/16/to-reach-too-high/ .) it was weeks waiting for the results. Like PE1 the results were published in the Saturday edition of The Times, but this time you did not even have to go to London to get them on Friday night (as it was printed in London early Saturday editionsContinue reading “But the heart it yearns”
Exit Planet Dust
This is the start of the final 100 regular entries in this series. The X-Men started a trend for superhero movies that has lasted twenty years. It was always likely to be Spiderman – Marvel’s powerhouse title from the sixties to the eighties – or the X-Men that took its place as the sales juggernautContinue reading “Exit Planet Dust”
The lot we used to pass everyday
Every time we got a new client at Grant Thornton it was a big deal, mainly because the firm leaked away existing clients so fast. Chartered Accountancy firms were not allowed to advertise so appointments came via recommendations from lawyers, banks or other clients. Ernst Whinney (now Ernst & Young) were the biggest national firmContinue reading “The lot we used to pass everyday”
The wild dogs cry out in the night
Once upon a time in the 1950s three batsmen played for the West Indies. Sir Frank Worrell who scored nearly 4,000 test runs at 49.48 and was the first non-white captain of the West Indies; Sir Clyde Walcott who scored nearly 4,000 runs at 56.68, and Sir Everton Weekes 4,400 runs at over an averageContinue reading “The wild dogs cry out in the night”
Letting the days go by
I was spoiled starting to listen seriously to pop music in the early 80s. After the revolution of punk there was the creativity of new wave and there was a lot of amazing music produced. I only really started to realise this as the decade wore on. The young, new bands become mellower as theyContinue reading “Letting the days go by”
Go Your Own Way
I am a real statistics nerd and I wanted to work out which were the most successful English clubs of all time. The main issue with this was how to attribute points for different achievements. So I put forward a scoring system as follows. The main points were that winning is more than twice asContinue reading “Go Your Own Way”
Though in truth we were at the sea
I would only read science fiction as a child. As soon as I had agency and birthday money I was buying books. That was my ninth birthday in 1974 where I solemnly picked out two Doctor Who novelisations, one Tomorrow People novelisation and a book about the search for the Loch Ness Monster. Dad managedContinue reading “Though in truth we were at the sea”
And it gets higher day by day
We were an outdoors family, whether some of us liked it or not😊 We were scouts, cubs, guides and brownies. We went on holidays to scenic places like the Lake District. In 1977 we camped at Seatoller Farm in Borrowdale, not far from Keswick. When we got to the site there was only one placeContinue reading “And it gets higher day by day”
We got a thousand points of light
Second year accountancy exams, Professional Examination 1 (PE1) were the real thing. The first-year exams just proved you could go on to do these. Revision courses for the five subjects were in Cambridge again, but at least I had a reliable car, even if it was the cheapest Fiesta imaginable (995cc and no heated rearContinue reading “We got a thousand points of light”
Five Miles Out 