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A case of pulling out the pin and getting out of here …

Okay, I’m coming out of the woods with my hands up. I’m male and my ‘topic de jour’ is the vexed one of women in sport. Last night, by complete chance since my gaff had been invaded by an electrician who has taken the best of two months to repair the non-working lights system in my front [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

What comes around

It so happens that, via a chance meeting a couple of years ago in a quite different context, this September I shall be setting off with an informal group of WW1 enthusiasts to tour a section of the battlefields of Verdun. Our plan is that, on the way back to the Eurotunnel terminal at Calais, we [...]

July 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sporting reflections upon a July weekend

Like I suspect all who regard themselves as avid sports-followers, whilst I have my favourites and my ‘avoids’ – most of them originally chosen from the array I played (or didn’t) in my schoolboy youth – if push should come to shove of a free afternoon in which to indulge myself, [...]

July 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Nobody won, but nobody lost either

Our family spent nearly three hours yesterday morning watching the final test match between the All Blacks and the British and Irish Lions, one of the most exciting games of international rugby it can ever remember. That it ended as a draw via a late and controversial referring decision by Romain [...]

July 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

It’s got to happen sometime

For those of us who ever worried about the future and the way that elite sport is going globally, here’s another article worth reading – Dervashi Lodhia on the route in which the IOC might take the Olympic Games in terms of taking e-sports on board – see here, as appears on the [...]

July 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Something to chew upon

For good or ill, I visit my dentist about every six months for a check-up – and then possibly a further appointment to deal with anything discovered during said check-up that might warrant attention. My attitude to teeth and dentistry is somewhat ambivalent. About three decades ago one dentist I [...]

July 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

What it takes

Whenever I read a magazine or newspaper article, or watch a documentary programme, which profiles anyone at the top of a business, professional or a vocation, I am always intrigued to discover exactly what appears to make the subject tick. (And okay, back in the day this curiosity used to spring [...]

July 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Oh for a quiet life

One of the annoying things I find about modern life – well, mine anyway – is that you get so little time to yourself. I had fondly imagined that by the time I reached my mid-sixties I’d be living in a perfect situation in which, with me bothering nobody and nobody bothering me, I could do [...]

July 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golfing gold

Yesterday I visited Old Thorns Golf & Country Estate in Hampshire in order to play a round of golf with the three old reprobates that I played with regularly in one combination or another for about a decade and a half from my early forties. My early forties were a long time ago – looks, [...]

July 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

A life on the ocean wave

Earlier this year some neighbours of my father went on a ‘wrong way around the world’ sea cruise trip to New Zealand before eventually making the return journey by air. If memory serves, the sea cruise leg of their odyssey took them seven or eight weeks. Some time after they got back [...]

July 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

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