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Keep up, those at the back!

It’s ironic how swiftly long-held views and perceptions – either positive or negative – can be altered if not reversed. From a personal view, if I’m being honest, my lifelong interest in cricket began in the late 1950s, reached its full bloom between about 1963 and 1993 and [...]

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

On The Road Again*

[* = with apologies to the American band Canned Heat] Saturday 18th February: Aviva Premiership Round 15: Bath Rugby v Harlequins at The Rec; Result – Bath Rugby 22 Harlequins 12: Bath Rugby 4 league points, Harlequins 0 league points. So that’s it, then. Harlequins remain one of the most [...]

February 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

Dentistry and cars

Yesterday I was in the absurd position of having to give up a day of my life in order to spend seven hours travelling to the south coast essentially to take my elderly father to a half-hour appointment at his local dentist. This state of affairs had arisen because – although we had specified to [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Whoops!

Over the last couple of years the world seems to have gradually divorced itself from rationality, order and even reality. Is it pompous to suggest that much of human development results from a clash of ‘preserving what we cherish’ (conservatism with a small ‘C’) and by lobbying, protesting [...]

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Press and responsibility

I don’t know where we are on the second part of the Leveson Inquiry – is it going ahead or not? My impression was that – after all the shenanigans, hoo-haa, ridicule and celebrity interventions that had attached themselves to the first part – even Lord Justice Leveson had [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here’s one for the girls

Following the mention of it in my colleague Derek Williams’s article yesterday I want to raise a hand in support of netball, a game that most females have played at school, if not subsequently. In fact, I still occasionally turn out for what virtually amounts to a ‘walking’ form [...]

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Time for an old chestnut

We all know that, when someone enters – or indeed re-joins – a debate with the opening words “With respect …” almost certainly they’re actually about to either damn with faint praise or else launch into a vicious rebuttal of the previous speaker’s point or position. Even allowing for [...]

February 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Another one missed I’m afraid

Friday 10th February 2017: Aviva Premiership; Bristol Rugby v Harlequins at Ashton Gate: Result – Bristol Rugby 8 Harlequins 42: Harlequins 5 league points for a (4 try) bonus point victory. Here’s another advance warning: this is another non-report from your Quins correspondent, which now [...]

February 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Saying goodbye

Two funerals in the past fortnight for your author and as a direct result therefore also as few reflections upon mortality and life. As it happens, I was attending the first of them – of someone I barely knew – only as a companion to someone else, but yesterday’s farewell was to a formidable [...]

February 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

A memorable lunch

Yesterday my brother and I took our father for a visit to where he and his parents used to live in south London between about 1932 and 1939, this before going on for lunch with one of his oldest remaining pals, with whom he had been a prep school before the start of WW2. As is the nature of life [...]

February 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

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