OTHER MEN'S FLOWERS IS:...a medley, a mélange, an assortment, a collection, a compendium, a digest, an assemblage, a compilation, a gathering, a miscellany, a mustering, an anthology, a farrago, a ragbag, a hodgepodge or a gallimaufry...
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It is updated between seven and fifteen times a month
In 2009 it contained a quarter of a million words in over a
thousand posts; some are serious, most are not. Caveat lector.
thousand posts; some are serious, most are not. Caveat lector.
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Runner-up, Lucy Beamish Prize for Good Behaviour in Class, 1938Whitgift School 1940-1948
University College London, 1949-51, BSc Eng (failed twice, as explained here )
National Service in Fayid and Ismailia 1951-53
Export Manager, E C De Witt & Co Ltd 1953-60
Overseas Marketing Director, Dylon International Ltd 1960-74
Secretary-General, The International Table Tennis Federation 1976-93
Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer or consultant to a dozen charities 1985-2001
[Since then, amateur dabbler in cloudwatching and deipnosophism]
Lives on the south coast of England
Married, twice. Three children, two grandchildren.
Nathalie, Sacha & Chantal in 1970
Other Men's Flowers is also the title of an anthology of poems by Lord Wavell.
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Opinions expressed in Other Men's Flowers may or may not be those of the author and
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and conversely, as the case may be.
