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They didn’t tell me it rains in Palma!

My Friday in Palma constituted what the journos would describe as a ‘slow news day’. For most of the daylight hours it was drizzling and then, from about 5.00pm, the mist rolled in and it really began to rain quite hard. Not something one normally associates with Mallorca because most of us [...]

December 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Day Two in Mallorca

The weather out here in Palma resembles a balmy mid-September UK during daylight, becoming significantly colder once the sun goes down about 6.00pm. Day Two began about 10.00am when my son Barry came to pick me up and take me to his industrial unit about 15 miles out of town, the hub of his [...]

December 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Calmer in Palma

Yesterday I flew down to Palma for a couple of days which by choice necessitated me setting off for Gatwick at the unearthly hour of 4.00am. This might have seemed like madness but there was indeed a method in it, as perhaps everyone (including myself) might have hoped. Firstly, it was cheap. [...]

December 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Medical matters again

Sometimes I frighten myself with how blasé I am regarding medical matters and my own body. I used to be terminally squeamish with anything too gruesome or detailed about other people’s illnesses, diseases or injuries. For a long while I was prone to feeling a mounting queasiness whenever people [...]

December 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Floundering in aspic?

Is it just me, or is the new Tory government regime under Mrs May distinctly under-impressive it its performance? Whether it’s a matter of fact, or just an impression I’ve gained, but it doesn’t seem to be scoring many runs at the moment. The common view within the Westminster ‘bubble’ is [...]

December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ba Humbug!

Today my eye was drawn to a brief piece on the website of the Daily Mail about a documentary shortly to be aired on RTE called The Secret Of The Universe. It tells the story of the death of Peter O’Neill, apparently styled the naked hermit of Wicklow – see here – DAILY MAIL I’m not sure I [...]

December 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Boxing on the box

The days of yore when I am my pals used to visit the Albert Hall, York Hall and sundry other traditional boxing venues (in the heyday of Tony Sibson, Dave ‘Boy’ Green and the great John L. Gardner) in order to watch the pantomime bills of Mickey Duff, Jarvis Astaire and Frank Warren have long [...]

December 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hardly worth the bother

European Challenge Cup Pool 5 (group stage): Timisoara Saracens v Harlequins at the Dan Paltinisanu Stadium, kick-off 1300 hours UK time: Result – Timisoara Saracens 3 Harlequins 42. Half-time score 3-21. Bonus point secured for Harlequins one minute into the second half. Tries for Quins by Ward, [...]

December 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Well now they’ve really got to do SOMETHING

Yesterday’s revelations by Canadian Professor Richard McLaren of the US Anti-Doping Agency about Russia’s systematic state-organised doping programme between 2011 and 2015 must stand as one of the most courageous and forthright condemnations of cheating in the chequered history of world sport. [...]

December 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it comes to this

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I wake up in the night and go on the newspaper websites to catch up with what’s happening and wish I hadn’t bothered. A lady could get depressed reading the doom-mongering stuff being put about in the media. Never mind Brexit, Donald Trump, Syria, [...]

December 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

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