Mike Crowl's Random Notes

First published in Column 8 on the 27 th May, 1992 O n the bus home the other evening, a neighbour and I (he also bearded and bespectacle...

  First published in Column 8 on the 20 th May 1992   I was pleased to see hundreds of people packing the Town Hall to hear the Dalai Lam...

  First published in Column 8 on the 29 th April 1992 Everyone has heard of second childhood. However, this may be preceded by an earlier...

First published in Column 8 on the 8 th April, 1992 It’s a truism that as we get older the years seem to go by faster. Most of us have be...

My wife and I have been learning Spanish through Duolingo for around 600 days and have made some progress, but f or the last few days I’ve b...

  First published in Column 8 on the 1 st April, 1992   When you see those crowded terraces of monitors behind the newsreaders on televis...

  First published in Column 8, 25 th March, 1992 With all the discussion about the placement of a new tip, I can no longer avoid putting ...

First published in Column 8 on the 18 th March, 1992 Though it’s more than a fortnight since I first saw it, a news photo has continued t...

First published in Column 8 on the 11 th March 1992 To avoid the atrophy of the brain as I grow older, I continue to ask questions. Thus ...

First published in Column 8 on the 4 th March, 1992 Put progress in the driving seat and she takes some curious turns. This week we bough...

First published in Column 8 on the 26th February, 1992 Words have a funny way of shifting meaning when used by differing groups. In a news...

First published in Column 8 on the 12 th February, 1992 We used to have a discussion in our house (of the more heated sort) in which my s...