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Search called off

I’m up early this morning and the sad news has just been confirmed on Radio Five Live that the US coastguards have called off their search for the four missing Brit sailors, having found the overturned hull of the Cheeky Rafiki and established that their lifeboat was never even deployed. Here’s [...]

May 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

A thumbs-up for a musical idol

According to reports in the media overnight, fears are growing for the health of former Beatle Paul McCartney, 71, now hospitalised in Tokyo by some form of virus that has caused the cancellation of four gigs in the Far East in advance of a 19-date US tour planned to begin next month. Despite this, [...]

May 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

An old friend drops by

After lunch at the coast yesterday, I spent some time sitting with my father on the terrace overlooking his lawn, ‘chewing the cud’ together. With thunderstorms and torrential rain predicted for today, the weather couldn’t quite make up its mind and was alternating weak sunshine with dark [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Here, m’Dear …

Back in the Dark Ages of the 20th Century, simply for our own enjoyment, some pals and I spent a proportion of our leisure time producing nakedly self-indulgent sports magazines – the first devoted exclusively to boxing and the second attempting to broaden our unique approach to all sports that [...]

May 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Against all odds

I return to this subject today, after a degree of soul-searching and a discussion with the editor of the National Rust, and I need to come clean as to why. Like most people, sometimes I hold views that might be controversial in certain company. But, being a wimp (or should that be ‘a normal human [...]

May 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

The joys of community life

I am a firm believer that when you relocate to a new place you should patronise local business. I’m more accustomed to shopping at Fortnums than the troubled Co-Op group, but I had to visit one of their shops to refill a gas and then eletricity key card. Whilst in the locale I explored for a [...]

May 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Quins-watch (27): almost beyond belief

Strewth! No sooner than I put away my Harlequins underpants, oncie and jester’s hat, and then signed off for the season, than Stuart Lancaster announced the second batch of his England training squad for the tour of New Zealand next month. We Quins fans mustn’t get carried away, because – for [...]

May 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Goodbye to all that

I couldn’t let the news that Australia’s legendary Grand Prix driver Jack Brabham has died aged 88 pass without comment. As a senior citizen, these days I watch modern sports heroes mostly on the television, marvelling at their skills, their finely-honed abilities … and above all, their [...]

May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

School for scandal

My old school St Paul’s has been hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons, namely a succession of teachers who were “at it” with the boys. I have always thought that one of the reasons people went into teaching was their attraction for young boys and the sinister, complicit way [...]

May 17, 2014 // 0 Comments

A birthday lunch

Yesterday I attended an enjoyable family lunch in Knightsbridge hosted by my father on what would have my mother’s 90th birthday, had she still been alive. It might be churlish of me to remark that one aspect of the occasion that surprised me was how little of it was spent actually paying tribute [...]

May 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

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