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The art of self-awareness

On Saturday I attended a family wedding in the Midlands. Only it turned out when we arrived that it wasn’t actually a wedding because that had taken place at least a week beforehand.  What we had actually been invited to [billed as a ‘Ceremony and Celebration’] might best be termed a summer [...]

September 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Another report from the front line

For those who may have not the slightest interest in hip replacement operations, this is probably the moment to move on to another item. Today I am simply posting one of my irregular blogs on the subject because today marks the completion of nine weeks since I had mine. In terms of formal contacts [...]

September 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Money and sport

What has struck me recently about some of the developments in the world of sport is the fact that, as a branch of the entertainment business, its governors and administrators are constantly wrestling with the fundamental issues of attracting the paying public, television (or online) viewers and – [...]

September 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pushing a boulder up a hill

It’s well-known that two signals of old age are firstly, an entrenched belief that things were better ‘back in the day’ [what a horrible phrase!] and secondly, a tendency to repeat one’s own stories. Thus I begin my post today hoping, probably in vain, that in addressing today’s chosen [...]

September 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘Bake Off’ is off, then

Two of the great things about being over the age of fifty (well, okay fifty-five) is that one can retain one’s propensity for having firm, not to say strident, opinions on areas of life and commerce in which one was once proficient and/or knowledgeable about whilst simultaneously absolving [...]

September 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

To Get Back, or not to get back

Being roughly ten years younger than the Beatles, when they first burst upon national British consciousness I immediately became an obsessive wide-eyed fan of theirs in a male ‘from a safe distance, middle class, watching on TV, listening on radio, reading the newspapers and magazines, always [...]

September 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Strange times or perhaps maybe not

It is difficult to avoid the view that we live in interesting times, but then in reality all times are ‘interesting’, irrespective of whether they appear to be hosting a bigger number of earth-shattering or iconic events that one might normally expect. Right now we’re approaching getting the [...]

September 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rugby may be going the way of all sports

One of the uncomfortable home truths coming home to roost in world sport in the last five years is the extent to which the powers-that-be [and in that description I include both sports administrators generally and those club owners (in team games) and personal managers (in individual sports) who [...]

September 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Quinswatch (Match 2): even the radio is misfiring

Aviva Premiership 9th September 2016: Sale Sharks v Harlequins at the AJ Bell Stadium, kick-off 8.15pm. Result: Sale Sharks 19 (4 league points) Harlequins 10 (0 league points). In my lifetime I have twice driven up Manchester way in order to attend Harlequins away matches against Sale Sharks – a [...]

September 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Salute to Bridget

In common with what is now my fellow members of two generations of women, since Helen Fielding first brought her to the printed page in The Independent newspaper in the mid-1990s, I have had to come to terms with the Bridget Jones phenomenon. However, unlike some of the sisterhood, I have never [...]

September 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

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