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The art of nap-taking

My family sometimes josh me because for the last four years or so I have grown into the habit of retiring to my bed after lunch for a post-prandial nap. The official line being broadcast to the world behind my back is that it signals another step upon my journey into old age. From my perspective it [...]

December 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Man against the elements

Yesterday I consider I made my own contribution to man’s perennial struggle against the elements when I defrosted my fridge. With my housekeeper in deepest Cornwall and my p/a Polly in Kent I was left to my own devices over the festive period. On Monday I called the appliance man to consider [...]

December 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

It’s probably a personal thing, and perhaps it was ever thus, but there doesn’t appear to be much happening this Christmas. Okay, there’s a lot of rain falling – or threatened – in Cumbria, some elderly gentleman has accidentally put his car through a Costas coffee house window in [...]

December 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

Delusion – or the art of getting the wrong end of the stick

In the world of television it is an eternal article of faith that there exists absolutely no accounting for taste and no correlation at all between quality of production and popular success. Back in the days when I worked briefly in the UK television industry I soon lost count of the number of [...]

December 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

You cain’t always git what you want

Monday 21st December: Harlequins ‘A’ 20 Bath United 16. Introduction: (1) an apology: because of my rather tenuous relationship with technical competence, I discovered overnight that I must have inadvertently pressed some unknown button on my bog-standard digital camera. As a result, all the [...]

December 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

What’s in a reputation?

Last week Jimmy Hill and Greville Janner, two gentlemen of public note who had been stricken with dementia of one form or another, both died at the age of eighty-seven. I ought to note here that I always steer clear of stating that anyone actually died of dementia because, having had a close family [...]

December 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another game of two halves

The Stoop, Saturday 19th December: Harlequins 59 Calvisano 7 (European Challenge Cup). Rugby Calvisano S.R.L. is a professional rugby club hailing from the province of Brescia in Lombary which currently operates in Italy’s National Championship of Excellence and managed to qualify to play in this [...]

December 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ba Humbug!

And so the festive season is in full swing – the television schedules are all over the place; pre-Xmas sales are being advertised on the high street; media columnists from every department are compiling their highlights of 2015; BBC Sports Personality Of The Year takes place tomorrow; odd members [...]

December 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A regular Xmas lunch

I have been having lunch with two brothers for roughly 35 years on the last Friday before Xmas. They are a convivial pair and conversation is never an issue. Over the years we have generally met in a club, firstly the Arts Club in Dover St where I was a member, and lately the Athenaeum. When one [...]

December 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A regular unwelcome reminder

Call me an old cynic but one of the most dispiriting aspects of politics and current affairs is being exposed to the thoughts and opinions of the average British voter – though I don’t doubt for a moment that this observation could also be applied to any voter in any democratic country and [...]

December 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

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