Alan Gandy

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Actually neither of them are  – Guido is a dog, and Elle hasn’t got a bitchy bone in her body. But the headline got your attention didn’t it!

One of my greatest heroes in life was my grandfather. He was quite a man! As a child I always remember him being old… We used to go and visit most weekends as kids and my favourite parts of these visits was that often he would sit me down and tell me tales of his times in Canada, like stories of entire cowsheds being tossed around in a whirlwind with cows popping out of the sides of the funnel, his times riding the rails of trains in true Kerouac fashion, of being a lumberjack, of the wide open spaces.

Not until I was older did I get to find out the whole story. Read the rest of this entry »

What is it with kids today! (OMG – I hear my dad´s voice ringing through my head again…) We have just had the boys to stay for most of the summer, gave them the freedom of the town, and the beach which are in walking distance… And what do they do – sit around the house playing on the computer….

It´s just not natural – at their age I´d have been down the beach from morning until night with dark glasses and a big brimmed hat staring and scantily clad women and girls. Should I be ordering DNA tests – they couldn´t possibly be mine could they?