by Ian Ferris | Jun 19, 2018
Simpson’s in the Strand is one of London’s historic and iconic dining venues which I like very much, or at least, I did. I’ve been going there for years. Most of my career, in fact. I last went there on the day I retired, with the family. Entering a hallway through a...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 13, 2018
In early June Jeremy Hunt became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history. His Commons statements are often delivered strenuously with fixed-smile authority, gripping the despatch box with both hands whilst rocking forwards and glaring...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 11, 2018
Rather than watch the Trooping the Colour on such a beautiful early summer’s day we took the dogs and our very best demeanours to the Gloucestershire Festival of Polo at the Beaufort Polo Club, near Westonbirt. This annual event’s web site notes it to be one of...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 1, 2018
The Aberfan Disaster was the single most appalling and shocking tragedy in modern Welsh history The tragic events at Aberfan on the morning of October 21 1966, when 116 children and 28 adults died in a sea of slurry following the collapse of a coal tip above the...
by Ian Ferris | May 23, 2018
GoPro videos are some of the most amazing you will find on YouTube. My favourite to date is the latest “GoPro HERO6: This is the Moment in 4K” launch video, astonishing video of astonishing athletes doing astonishing things in one-of-a-kind, astonishing...
