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T20 reassessed

Whisper it softly but I’m coming round to T20. There is no cricket to spectate so needs must. But it goes beyond that. Without spectators I am no longer irritated by the loud disco music, the flares and the general ambience of a drunken night out for the lads. Of course you still see grotesque [...]

September 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Truth about Franco/PBS

This PBS documentary on General Franco was thorough enough but you could see it was not made by Ken Burns as it was not nearly as even-handed as his work. The two experts most used were Franco’s biographer Paul Preston, who is resolutely anti-Franco, and the distinguished writer historian Anthony [...]

September 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

A barbecue at home

A family I know well came down to stay for two days. Family is the right word as I have good relationships with three generations. They stayed at a hotel nearby. I decided to make a barbecue. It was quite an undertaking as, although the food was delivered by Cote, it still had to be cooked, served [...]

September 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

Covid – a personal view and a pleasant evening

My own macro view of the present Covid situation is that we are a long way from the crisis of spring. Everyone should take necessary precautions but beyond that is matter of personal choice not Boris Johnson diktat. Also the question of paying for massive handouts needs to be better addressed. Last [...]

September 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

The demise of ITV and the rise of Talking Pictures

ITV has dropped out of the FTSE 500 which reflects a broadcasting company in trouble if not in crisis. Covid has ravaged advertising revenue and new productions. Britbox has not taken hold. It’s sad as ITV in its time though its local franchises like Thames produced much popular successful [...]

September 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sussex Sharks triumph

Sussex maintained their unbeaten record in the Vitality T20 with a 3 wicket, last over, victory last night over Middlesex. Even without Chris Jordan and Jofra Archer on England duty we have a powerful T20 pace attack with Tymal Mills, Ollie Robinson, David Wiese and George Garton. Spinners Will [...]

September 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

Maintaining reputation in art

I read Michael Stuart’s piece on Bruce Springsteen with interest and it inspired me to think of painters who maintained their reputation established when young and those that did not. The list of great painters who were never well-known in their lifetime is as impressive as it is long: Van Gogh, [...]

September 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

For an avid TV sport watcher Sunday was manna from Heaven with cricket, the Tour and golf. The new kid on the block Hojgaard of Denmark won his second European tour victory in the Welsh Open at Celtic Manor in a play off with Julian Walters. The BMW  on the USPGA tour also went to a play-off with [...]

August 31, 2020 // 0 Comments

Le Tour de France

I felt a whole range of emotion at the first day of the Tour. With so many sporting events ruined, would the Tour be? In fact it was only postponed from late June. Notwithstanding that Nice is in the danger zone for Covid and the Tour being a non-stadium event so impossible to impose social [...]

August 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

When will we learn ?

In 1968 when t was at school one of my best pals – then and now – had a father involved in cricket and one of his charges were the International Cavaliers, a troupe of international cricketers like the Harlem Globe Trotters, sponsored by cigarette company Rothmans. They had come to [...]

August 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

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