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About Darren Buckley

Darren is one of our younger contributors, having been born in 1979. He is finance director of an IT marketing company based in Litchfield and was a fanatical club-level triathlete until his growing family helped him come to his senses. His regular exercise these days come from walking the dog. More Posts

Worth a read

Having acknowledged that anyone begins a piece with the words ‘Don’t get me wrong, …’ runs the risk of falling foul of the quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet ‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks …’ and/or the natural cynicism that accompanies [...]

January 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

A classic movie

On Saturday 27th December at 3.55pm Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Cane, will be shown on Channel Four. National Rust’s esteemed film critic Neil Rosen has written about this iconic British movie previously but some hold that you can never have too much of a good thing and today I would [...]

December 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

All in the preparation

Yesterday I drove to the south coast in order to collect my father and take him to a church in north London for the thanksgiving service of a family relative. As occasionally happens, he was in a mischievous mood. Driving up through the London traffic, in terms of our schedule rather too busy for [...]

December 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Believing in faith

Mid-morning yesterday – as one does – I walked 250 yards down the road outside my flat to my local key-cutting/shoe repair shop in order to get my family’s always keenly-contested golf trophy engraved with my name because I had emerged victorious the last time we played (a fortnight [...]

August 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Well, it got to me

Sometimes with amusing tales you had to have been there to ‘get the joke’ and sometimes things which tickle your personal funny-bone just don’t seem that funny to others. Nevertheless, for what it’s worth, here’s a true story that appealed to me yesterday. I was speaking to a lady who [...]

July 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

A perfect day

Yesterday I rendezvous’d with a family friend in Emsworth in order to bring a new motor cruiser around the Chichester harbour estuary. Previously he’d had a smaller craft with an apology of a cabin, but this one was a belter with twin engines, a galley, a seated area, a sink and (lo and behold) [...]

June 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Getting a grip

Whilst I could not claim that it is a particular interest of mine, I find I have no shortage of opinions upon football matters. [That fact is one of life’s little oddities, isn’t it? As a general rule, the more you know about a subject, the harder it is to reach an absolute truth upon it.] [...]

June 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Peter Callander

Reading the obit section of the Times, I was saddened to read of the passing of songwriter Peter Callander as 44 years ago we met him on a family holiday in Rhodes.  He was the sort of fellow you would want to meet on holiday: jovial, fun loving and generous.  In that half-hearted way one does [...]

March 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Drugs in sport (again)

We learn today that the Court of Arbitration for Sport has cleared the two-time Olympic 200 metres champion Veronica Campbell-Brown to compete again with immediate effect, after she had earlier received a two-year ban for a performance-enhancing drugs offence. I cast no aspersions at Ms [...]

February 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

A new angle on the rat race

There’s an old wives’ tale that those of us living in Greater London are – statistically, i.e. by calculating numbers against acreage – never more than six feet away from a rat. When I say it’s an old wives’ tale, this theoretical estimate is actually alleged to have first seen the [...]

February 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

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