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A credit to the sport of golf

Hats off to Sergio Garcia, one of the best-loved professional golfers in the world,  for his ‘extra hole’ play-off victory in the US Masters, I make no pretension to be a golf expert but my hunch is is that Sergio probably also stands as one of the world’s most favourite Spaniards [...]

April 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

One for the old man

Yesterday, having arrived on the south coast to spend the weekend with my aged father, we had an idyllic time of it. The early conditions were so-so – to clear the overnight condensation that bedecked my car windows I had to wipe them with a cloth before I could set off at 6.00am to collect [...]

April 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Reunion

It’s good to hear The Reunion back on the air, Sundays at 11-15, repeated Friday at 9.00. For those who do not know the format Sue McGregor, the best female broadcaster the BBC has ever produced, gathers together a group reunited to recall some momentous event: a tragedy, launch or day of [...]

April 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Much ado about nothing (possibly)

The recent furore attending upon Sunderland football manager David Moyes’ inappropriate end-of-interview remark to female BBC sports reporter Vicki Sparks has not only highlighted several issues but launched a thousand newspaper columns and caused innumerable rent-a-mouths to bestride the [...]

April 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s Just Banter/ Leroy Rosenior

Leroy Rosenior’s autobiography will be of interest beyond the supporters of the 3 clubs he played for – Fulham, QPR and West Ham and the three he managed Bristol City, Torquay and Brentford. Born in Sierra Leone, whom he later managed for 2 games, growing up in Brixton in the sixties [...]

March 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Bugatti Queen/ Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour has written an outstanding biography of a woman of whom I have never heard, Helene Delangle aka Helle Nice arguably the finest female racing driver of all time. Born at the very start of the twentieth century, in a provincial French family, her father was a postman, she first went [...]

March 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

Me and Marc Chagall

It’s funny how one’s tastes in anything can change over one’s life. I never could enjoy or appreciate the art of Marc Chagall as its biblical representation did not reach me. My parents hung a reproduction in their bathroom of his home town, where my grandfather too was born, [...]

March 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bob’s birthday and Cote d’Art

One of the things I most enjoy about the Cote d’Azur is the public art or to put it differently the U.K. suffers by comparison. Even in London there might be the odd public sculpture, memorial fountain or park gates usually of a poor standard. Here in Nice we noticed immediately a blue modern [...]

March 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

SSGB

Sunday night was the final episode of SSGB and the series has been well received. The plot line is complex if not convoluted with many paths off it: the removal out of occupied Britain of nuclear research and the flight of the ageing infirm King George. This was in the context of 3 groups, the [...]

March 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

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