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The art of coming up smelling of roses

Back in the day when I was a kid at boarding prep school our access to television was restricted to the whim of a bachelor assistant headmaster, who’d previously been in the navy, who used to operate an ‘open house’ on Saturday afternoons in his disorganised study which gave off a ‘twenty [...]

October 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Roger, over … and out

Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Whilst spending Friday and Saturday with my aged parent in the country – in a spot where mobile network signals are sometimes variable to the point where anyone wishing to use a mobile tends to to set off towards the bottom of the garden in the quest to [...]

October 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old …

Saturday 22nd October; European Rugby Challenge Cup group stage – Edinburgh Rugby v Harlequins at Murrayfield, kick-off 3.00pm. Result: Edinburgh 36 Harlequins 35. As it happens, I am happy to report that, due to family circumstances, while this game was taking place ‘north of the Border’ and [...]

October 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The bookies always win

Having gone to bed exceptionally early last night – embarrassment prevents me revealing exactly when – I was inevitably up again at a near-record time. It was either in the twenty to thirty minutes in bed before falling into slumber, or in the similar period as I gradually ‘came [...]

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The world’s gone mad (again)

It is not often that I am up at the time on a Thursday (10.35pm or thereabouts) for the BBC1 Question Time programme chaired by David Dimbleby, as I was last night. The first two topics discussed were those of the US Presidential debate and, of course with Mrs May at her first EU summit, Brexit. [...]

October 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

And suddenly – we voted Brexit, folks (apparently)!

Overnight I visited the website of The Independent and suddenly felt that I’d fallen into a parallel universe in which Brexit had suddenly become the only topic of the moment. Flicking to the equivalents of the other what-used-to-be-called UK broadsheet ‘serious’ newspapers and normality [...]

October 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

A matter of expediency

Some might think in prospect that it is a jump too far somehow manage to compose a blog post linking the EU Referendum result to the recent involuntary (I’m not discussing here Will Young’s decision to walk away from the show) three celebrity ‘votings-off’ the BBC’s weekend ratings [...]

October 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

European rugby misgivings

I have blogged about this before, but the first weekend of the 2016/2017 European Rugby cup competitions has reinforced my impression that Northern Hemisphere rugby union is rapidly going the way of top flight football with bells on – and not necessarily in a good way. Let me list some of the [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaction blues

Rape is a ghastly, sickening crime and one that many surveys and studies testify may be wildly under-reported not just in the UK but around the world. However, the recent acquittal of (now) Chesterfield professional footballer Ched Evans in his re-trial continues to produce a great deal of [...]

October 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Card troubles

It’s a rare occasion when one makes the BBC 6 O’ Clock television news, as I did last night. Or think I may have done. Here’s a link to the report concerned – as covered on the website of the – DAILY MAIL Yesterday late morning, as is my fate on a Friday, I was sent out to purchase the [...]

October 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

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