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Ivan Conway will be reporting on Sussex sport. He is a member of the 1901 club at Brighton HAFC, Sussex County Cricket Club and an enthusiastic horse race goer. After selling his freight forwarding and conference business he settled in Hove. His other interests are bird watching, brass rubbing and bridge. More Posts

Sussex sport evaluated.

Every Friday I speak to a friend who holds a senior position in Sussex CCC. Like most including me his sporting support extends to the Albion who have started the resumption well. No such good news for cricket when Boris Johnson dispatched all hopes of a speedy resumption with a Viv Richards-style [...]

June 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Zoom or bust?

We senior zoomers have problems familiar to those who read the Rust. My Spanish class normally on a Friday had been cancelled and is now only taking place online. I decided against joining it as the class, the picturesque village where the adult learning centre is situated and leaving my home for a [...]

May 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

A birthday celebration with a difference

Yesterday my sister-in-law turned 70 and her son and daughter organised a sort of This is Your Life on Zoom. Three month ago I had never heard of Zoom. If you include my Spanish class quiz  and a couple of cocktail hour chats with friends, it is now becoming quite a feature of my life. [...]

May 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

Balcony life

Every day I take my morning constitutional around Brighton Marina. Pre-virus, you rarely heard any inter-balcony chat, now it is very much a feature of life. It reminds me of the film of Till Death Do Us part when Alf Garnett would sit on the outside bog for ages chatting to his neighbour on his. I [...]

April 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

A chance encounter

Yesterday late afternoon I was chatting on the phone to an old friend who has contracted Coronavirus for 2 weeks. It’s wiped him out though fortunately did not reach his lungs. My friend, though Jewish, holds somewhat passionate atheist views. One matter we discussed in this context was that my [...]

April 8, 2020 // 0 Comments

Scammed?

A curious thing happened last Thursday afternoon. A lady in our Spanish class which has closed due to the virus had offered to set a quiz. We in the class are not that proficient with the technology of Zoom so there was  a trial run. In the course of this run, I received a text requesting me to [...]

April 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

Let’s call the whole thing off

I was having a small birthday celebration in the Museum of the cricket ground at Hove this Sunday. All week the event was under pressure but my attitude was that it would proceed provided the event company did not have to call it off and I was well. In the event – a not inappropriate phrase [...]

March 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

BRIGHTON 0 CRYSTAL PALACE 1

It’s bad enough losing to a bottom table side without that team being your hated rivals Crystal Palace. Generally-speaking the Seagulls fans are a cheerful lot, grateful to be at the top table, but when it comes to Palace we display a different and less attractive side. The Amex stadium is [...]

March 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

A Day at the Races

Yesterday our Players Club of Sussex CCC organised a day out at Plumpton races.  Always curious to enjoy a new sporting experience I went along. Plumpton is near Lewes in the fold of the South Downs. Sussex is blessed with racecourses. Aside from Plumpton, there are Brighton, Fontwell and the [...]

February 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Aston Villa 1

There is a misconception in football that we fans know much less than players, managers, coaches and pundits. This dull game – if it did nothing else – disproved this. On the bus to the Amex – the least car-friendly stadium in the world – I met a supporter I knew. He [...]

January 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

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