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Some encouraging TV rugby

[For those sports fans who did not watch British television coverage of what happened on the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand and England tour to Argentina yesterday, please refer to the match reports in your newspapers of choice. My following reflections are based exclusively upon my [...]

June 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Phew!

With apologies for even mentioning it, especially in the context of the wall-to-wall, minute-by-minute, media coverage we’ve been subjected these last 24 hours, but I feel moved to provide some observations upon the result of the General Election. In no order of importance, especially since I [...]

June 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

You win some and you lose some

Given the extraordinary outcome of the UK’s General Election and the resulting subsequent orgy of punditry and analysis (on which I’d hasten to add I am neither qualified nor willing to pontificate), it is perhaps not quite the fashionable moment for me to emerge from under my rock to crow over [...]

June 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Longest Day

This will day that will long in the memory, not least for the exit poll when I finally “hit the hay” at 10.00pm. My first appointment was to see my ophthalmic surgeon and hopefully see him afterwards for a minor procedure to remove a membrane from my left eye. I assured my p/a the ever [...]

June 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

A chance encounter

It so happened yesterday that I was due to have lunch in an Italian restaurant on Grafton Way close to Warren Street Tube station. On my way I emerged into the sunlight at Tottenham Court Road Tube station and, for no other reason that I had some time to spare, decided – instead of walking [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

It never rains but it pours

Yesterday was largely taken up with travelling to the designated medical centre for an appointment for a screening offered to me (as someone over the age of 65) by the NHS that is designed to provide an early warning sign – if any be detected – of a potential future abdominal aortic [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

The knock on the door

Several centuries ago now (in the 1970s) – I cannot even recall which time of year it was but it was during a student vacation of some kind – a pal and I, editors of our respective student magazines, pitched up at a convention in Salford on the general topic of student publications, [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Stumbling towards the finish line

One day to go to Polling Day and it is hard not to conclude that the official duration of a General Election campaign in the UK [is it six weeks?] is the absolute maximum that any sane individual can possible stomach. It’s a coin toss as to whether the political class regards an election campaign [...]

June 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

Leaving home

Last week I effectively ended my quarter of a century affiliation to Harlequins FC by not renewing my season ticket for the 2017/2018 season by the well-publicised deadline date. I shall remain a member of the club but I shall no more – well, hang on, even I cannot quite rule out ever – go down [...]

June 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

A worthy charity event

It happens in all professions – I’m thinking of a put-upon hotel manager who has to deal with the wacky demands of some jumped-up celebrity diva, a lawyer representing a client who’s denying everything despite his fingerprints being all over the stolen silverware, a head waiter facing Rust [...]

June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

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