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Like mushrooms in the dark

Someone said on the radio yesterday that there are now just 35 days until the EU Referendum and last night I watched – well, until I nodded off about ten minutes from the end – Jeremy Paxman’s BBC1 programme Paxman on Brussels: Who Really Rules Us? I read somewhere that, given Paxo’s [...]

May 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Running on empty

At this stage of the EU Referendum campaign – with the opposing teams seemingly falling over themselves to be more and more outrageous [or do I mean desperate?] in their claims as to what will happen if they do not win your vote – I suspect that, like me, most voters have already (or are about [...]

May 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Reaching the end of the road

Yesterday I went to the south coast to join a lunch at which my aged father was present. During the ten days since I had last seen him he had an ‘incident’ in which, in seeking to remove his car from a car park, he drove quite hard into another car by somehow getting confused and accidentally [...]

May 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

Tour de Lyon

After a hard half-day’s travelling (leaving our hotel in Lyon at an eye-watering 0445 hours) I reached home yesterday and ‘flopped’ – pulling up the drawbridge, watching a bit of the Barcelona Formula One Grand Prix before retiring to my pit for a two-hour snooze. Some that sports fans [...]

May 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach

This is the Big One – at precisely 0630 hours this morning a two-man SOE unit [you’ll have to look it up] will be picked up and driven to the City airport in London to be flown into enemy-occupied France. Their do-or-die mission will be to provide support to the formerly-mighty Quins match day [...]

May 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Mind at rest at last

And so yesterday to Soho, one of my familiar haunts of my yesteryear career, for lunch. In days of yore at one stage the Gay Hussar in Greek Street was practically a staff canteen and I (no gourmet I hasten to add) was occasionally taken down the road to L’Escargot, where the legendary Elena [...]

May 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

A commemoration in Paris

Yesterday I went to Paris for the stone setting of my uncle Albert buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. I took the Eurostar and was met by an old friend Monique. Unlike the UK this was a mixed religious cemetery and Uncle Albert was interred in a Jewish section. I noted near him a mausoleum for la [...]

May 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cranking up the rhetoric

Regular readers will have correctly fingered me as a supporter of Brexit on the forthcoming EU Referendum. I have reached this position not from a careful forensic analysis of the economic, political, security and innumerable other issues that we voters are being told we should be considering. Nor [...]

May 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

As fond send-offs go, a disaster …

Saturday 7th May 2016: Aviva Premiership Round 22: Harlequins v Exeter Chiefs at the Stoop, kick-off 1330 hours: Result – Harlequins 24 (0 league points) Exeter Chiefs 62 (5 point bonus-try win). Harlequins 3 tries (Care, Stanley and Sinkler), three conversions (Evans 1, Botica 2) and one penalty [...]

May 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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