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Getting ready to rumble

Just before lunchtime yesterday I decided to purchase my cable company’s pay-per-view offering of live coverage of the super-fight boxing bill featuring as its main event the world heavyweight championship bout between Britain’s supposed novice but greatly-hyped 27 year old Anthony Joshua and [...]

April 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Now the fun begins

As a self-professed cynic I sometimes get accused by readers of not taking politics seriously enough in the context of world affairs and the nation’s future etc., but I cannot help that. My area of special interest is the ‘game’ and its procedures rather than the respective party policies and [...]

April 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Slipping on a banana skin?

We’ve had Donald Trump being elected US President, the announcement of a UK General Election on 8th June, Emmanuel Macron (who started his own political party only a year ago) now installed as heavy favourite to become the President of French next month – how could the world get any weirder [...]

April 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

A decidedly unimpressive outing

Being en route to London at the time I was unable to watch yesterday’s BBC1 Sunday Politics show as it was being transmitted (unusually) mid-afternoon due to priority being granted to the Beeb’s coverage of the London Marathon. Instead, after a little technical difficulty, I managed to locate [...]

April 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

2 museums and a pottery

Yesterday I had to take time off the main group to see the Leger museum, Modoura pottery and Bonnard museum as preparation for a curative tour for travel agents Andrew Fyne later in the year. There were a number of logistical considerations, a private tour out of hours, a local guide, restaurants [...]

April 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Picasso Museum Antibes

Yesterday I took the National Rust party to the Picasso museum in Antibes. It is housed in the Grimaldi castle which Picasso was given as a studio for 6 months after the war and in appreciation gave some 26 of his works. Jacqueline Picasso gave some more in 1990 and now the museum has 246 pieces [...]

April 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

A Natural/ Ron Raisin

A Natural by Ron Raisin is hardly a typical book on football. It features life in the lower reaches of the League and a gay young footballer, Tom Pearman, who was a precocious talent as a kid but descended down the leagues. From the footballing perspective I found it interesting but Melanie Gay, on [...]

April 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

I’m not quite so sure it has

The Simon Cowell vehicle Britain’s Got Talent returned to ITV1 last night for the start of a new series and I am not ashamed to report that, for my sins, I was among its viewers. I am familiar with both Britain’s Got Talent and The X-Factor, Cowell’s other big show, largely because in the [...]

April 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

Just one more in a long line

The thing about 21st Century communications – e.g. the modern internet and social media, plus probably loads of other things that my grandchildren aged 7 and 3 know about but which I don’t – is that nobody is quite sure who and what might be listening to or reading your outpourings. These [...]

April 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

You can take a horse to the river …

Today I’m announcing something of a departure from a lifetime of personal philistinism. Yesterday, I happened to be out and about enjoying a stroll in the afternoon sunshine with the ‘Ball and Chain’. Just as the local high street shops were on the point of closing we came to a Waterstone’s [...]

April 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

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