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Saturday 19th March: Aviva Premiership Round 17: Harlequins 15 Worcester Warriors 21 It is not often that I have the opportunity to write the phrase ‘Words fail me …’ but this is definitely one of them. First up, a salute to the Worcester Warriors – a mix of promising young players and [...]

March 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

A glimpse of the future perhaps …

Yesterday I travelled to Twickenham Stadium to watch some of the Nat West School Finals Day, the culmination of a season’s worth of rugby involving schools from all over the country. It was certainly the case in times gone by that school rugby was one of the purest form of the sport. Nobody was [...]

March 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s a dog’s life, of course

Let’s leave the loonies appearing in the Jeremy Kyle Show who live on Benefits Street, smoke industrial quantities of dope, do most of their communicating with their fellow man or woman on Facebook and seem to specialise in exotic pets like pythons, lizards and terrapins … Most people I know in [...]

March 15, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ah well …

As usual, at the risk of sounding like a stuck record and/or being accused of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, I take some small satisfaction in noticing the machinations of the ‘game’ played by politicians the world over are showing themselves to be almost beyond parody at the moment. I [...]

March 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Godfather

Yesterday was the confirmation of one of my godsons at Eton Chapel. I assumed incorrectly that this was a one to one rite of passage analogous to the Jewish Barmitzvah. In fact it was very much a “job lot” as my godson was one of thirty confirmants in  a service officiated by the [...]

March 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Counting the chickens

The course of current events and developing issues are doing little to dispel the ‘chaos’ theory of politics, whether at home or in the United States. I’m no expert on American history or politics but the Trump phenomenon simply goes to reinforce the general impression on this side of the [...]

March 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Like Guy Fawkes Night all over again …

Aviva Premiership: Round 16: Friday 11th March 2016: Harlequins v Bath Rugby at the Stoop: Result – Harlequins 35 (5 league points, win plus bonus for 4 tries), Bath Rugby 28 (1 league point for finishing within 7 of the winner). Through force of circumstances unable to attend this [...]

March 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Between a Rock and a hard place

Between 1992 and 1994 I had a brief love affair with Apple products. I can pin-point the start of it because it was the year that the outcome of the infamous ITV franchise process instigated by the swivel-eyed Maggie Thatcher took effect, in the sense that those companies who had lost theirs had to [...]

March 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A moment in time

Yesterday morning I set off for two hours’ research in my local municipal library on my latest project. As I arrived I came upon a scene that could have been potentially disruptive to my cherished plan – on one side of the room one of the regular female members of staff was conducting a ‘show [...]

March 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

Shocking the world

Being occupied with other things, it was only as I retired to bed last night and turned on the radio that I first heard the news that Maria Sharapova had tested positive for the banned substance meldonium at the Australian Open in January. At a Los Angeles press conference which she had called [...]

March 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

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