Tommy Cooper
(For my American cousins Tommy Cooper was a British comedian who did silly tricks and always wore a fez. He made people laugh because of his style of handling one liners). Some examples: My wife...
Author: Tony Henderson
Slightly Sexist 2
EATING OUT When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in £20, even though it’s only for £38.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they...
Now Some Cultural News
In advance I apologise to my American cousins. Ten years ago obesity was mainly present in the USA. Now it is also common throughout many other countries, not least among the western European countries,...
Slightly Sexist 1
Men Are Just Happier People. Why? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. The world is your...
Spanish Politicians
In 2013 it was reported there are nearly 450,000 politicians in Spain. The population of Spain is 47 million In the same year there were apparently less than 150,000 politicians in Germany. The population...
Dragon Boat Races
The Dragon Boat festivals were always a popular event in the Henderson family calendar when we lived in Hong Kong, especially the races held off Stanley Village. Eventually an expatriate team was raised, but...
The Castellon Airport
Like bureaucracy, the Spanish have failed to eliminate corruption and incompetence by politicians. The possibilities are endless and I will bring you some examples in my blogs. They are endless because the political network...
Hong Kong 1949
My second novel, The Hong Kong Circle, finishes in 1949, and my third will start on that date. Here I will introduce to you to the first of the wonderful films shot by Michael...
True or False?
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, “If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all...
Bureaucracy
In the fifty years I’ve known Spain it has moved from a poor but beautiful country run by a dictator to a modern and sophisticated democracy. This has been fuelled in the main by two...