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Summer’s Crown: the Story of Cricket’s County Championship

A good friend of mine who moves in cricket circles – he chaired the Lords Taverners – recommended  Summer’s Crown to me knowing of my love for County cricket. It’s written by Stephen Chalke and would adorn any cricket library. It celebrates 125 years of county cricket with [...]

August 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life In Squares (review)

Yesterday I noticed that the second episode of Life In Squares, the BBC’s new three-part drama series on the lives and loves of the Bloomsbury Group, was nestling in the advance BBC2 schedule at 9.00pm and decided that I might as well give it a go. I should perhaps point out here that literary [...]

August 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

Fake or fortune

Fake or Fortune is now in its fourth series and I find it compelling viewing. I do not often like televised arts programmes for much the same reason I do not care for Tudor histories, namely the presenter is less than an interface and more the subject. Fake or Fortune could not be guilty of this as [...]

August 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

Mack and Mabel

Though the critics were lukewarm on Mack and Mabel, Jane Shillingford, her teacher friend Keith and I enjoyed it hugely. Critics do not always get it right – Les Miserables had dreadful reviews and is still going strong and I think Mack and Mabel will be a great national success, following on [...]

August 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

Operation Thunderbolt/ Saul David

Saul David’s account of the raid on Entebbe airport by Israeli commandos in July 1976, known as Operation Thunderbolt, has rightly received glowing reviews. I was particularly interested to compare it to the film Raid on Entebbe one of two films made immediately after the successful operation [...]

July 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Whither the weather …

… and whether to do something about it? [There – I’ve managed to get three forms of the same-sounding word into a five-word sequence, is that some sort of record?]. With the 1965 opening of the building now officially known as the NRG Astrodome – the Houston Astrodome to you and me – [...]

July 27, 2015 // 0 Comments

Down there but coming up

Anyone who watched the South Africa versus New Zealand match in the Southern Hemisphere’s Rugby Championship at Ellis Park (kick-off 4.05pm UK time) on Sky Sports yesterday, eventually won 20-27 by the All Blacks, would have marvelled at the spectacle. This was a full-bloodied Test Match of [...]

July 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Much Ado About Nothing

Last night I watched the Anniversary Games, sponsored by Sainsburys, held at the London 2012 Olympic Stadium – firstly, on BBC3 from 7.00pm to 8.00pm and then, from 8.00pm to 9.00pm, on BBC2. Although it was billed to be going on for another hour, I bailed out because 9.00pm is my bedtime and [...]

July 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Menabilly

I’m heading up the latest National Rust artistic appreciation tour to the Menabilly estate. Although this has been owned by the Rashleigh family since the reign of Elizabeth 1 it is best known for the 20 odd years that Daphne du Maurier lived here. As a young child on a family holiday at [...]

July 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Some things always remain

Yesterday my daughter and boyfriend travelled to the coast in order to join me for lunch. They live sufficiently far away that I don’t go to visit them that often, but then that’s a product of my old age. I regard spending a total of seven hours in a car for a four-hour visit somewhere as a [...]

July 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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