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Three Irish Regiments

My Bellew grandfather told me he served in both the North Irish Horse and South Irish Horse in the Great War.

Making Doctors

The premise of Making Doctors is that the training doctors receive does not prepare them for the job.

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Press the Bell

When I was a child we had breakfast, lunch and tea in the dining room.

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The Chumly Test

I failed the Chumly Test when I came to live in London and mentioned Cad O’Gan Square and continue to fail it, most recently at Kenwood.

Bedtime Story

More than fifty years ago I stayed in a B&B near Dingle.

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A Blast

“I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee,… Continue reading A Blast

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It’s in the Post

I have written a cheque this morning – my first this year – worthy of a cuckoo letter to The Times?

Our Kind of Ambassador

At the time of the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962 the British Ambassador in Washington was David Ormsby-Gore. He did not determine events but he was an important influencer.