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The secret of male attractiveness

Everyone knows the allegedly true story – recounted by the man himself on a TV chat show, if my memory serves – of the time that a middle-aged male hotel employee brought some element of room service up to footballer George Best’s room and, surveying the evidence of what had plainly been an [...]

December 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

A worrying place to be?

These days – with the internet being a law unto itself and social media spreading truths, half-truths and wild speculation like wildfire – it is easy to become (or seem to become) a Jeremiah crying ‘Wolf!’ at the slightest issue or problem. Nevertheless, taken as a whole, developments [...]

December 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

Blue and Lonesome – review

Last week I posted briefly about the imminent launch of the Rolling Stones’ new album Blue and Lonesome, an unexpected but (for some) welcome return to their early roots in blues and rhythm and blues. This further report comes in the wake of at last receiving my Amazon pre-ordered copy which I [...]

December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old …

Sunday 4th December 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 10: Newcastle Falcons v Harlequins at Kingston Park, kick-off 1500 hours: Result – Newcastle Falcons 38 Harlequins 32: Newcastle Falcons 5 league points – Harlequins 2 league points. In sixty-something years I have visited the city of Newcastle [...]

December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not there yet

Yesterday the family ate lunch together and then arranged ourselves around our sitting-room sofas to watch Sky Sport’s live coverage of England’s 37-21 (four try) rugby union victory over Australia that brought this years’ set of autumn internationals to a close. This may count as a statement [...]

December 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

What’s it all about … anyone?

There’s no doubting that the retirement decision of newly-crowned world champion Nico Rosberg 24 hours ago came as a bolt out of the blue not only to Formula One but to the world of sport generally. Judging by the reaction of former greats, pundits and the media generally it seems that most [...]

December 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another day goes by

Yesterday I spent a good deal of my waking hours ruminating upon the passage of time and the way the world was going – as one tends to occasionally when one has reached the advanced age that I have and life increasingly seems to be hurtling onwards in an increasingly frenzied and bewildering [...]

December 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Passage to India

Sitting in the departure lounge at Heathrow waiting for my Air India flight, I had two thoughts: (1) Does the England team care that thousands of fans are spending their hard-earned cash to follow England where now the most hopeful and unlikely result is a drawn series? (2) Does the England side [...]

December 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Park your indignation and simply wallow in it

It’s that time of year again. This week has seen the publication of the shortlist (or is it nominees?) for the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year charade that takes place every December and already we’ve got a raft of holier-than-thou journalists, representatives of B-list sports and inevitably [...]

November 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

I did okay, but not as well as I thought I would

Hello, it’s me again. I’m reporting in with progress post my hip replacement operation which took place in July – something I haven’t done in a while. In advance of undergoing the knife I had received medical opinion from all quarters that I should put off having a replacement for as long [...]

November 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

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