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It was Marcel Proust who said that illness is the doctor to whom we pay the most heed. Everything else we work our way around. For those for whom illness is a rare thing, it is a surprise to find out just how vulnerable we all are in the grand scheme of things.

There are several well-known bars existing in the world under the name Harry’s Bar, from Paris to New York to Rome and Beijing. The most famous would certainly be Harry’s Bar in Venice, known as the place where the Bellini was invented.

In 1939 my mother and I spent Christmas with both my grandmothers and on a cold bright day we set off for Galway by train.

There is probably no more sentimntal song in the world than Robbie Burns ‘Auld Lang Syne’, traditionally sung at the conclusion of New Year gatherings in Scotland and around the world, especially in English-speaking countries.