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Two red lines – and that’s it!

I tested positive for Covid- 19 yesterday. It’s a strange feeling – after two years of having avoided Covid and (largely speaking) taken all reasonable precautions as per the Government and NHS advice etc. – to suddenly wake up one morning and find that one has succumbed to it. I have to be [...]

June 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Premiership play offs

Yesterday I watched both Premiership Rugby semi-finals, the first Saracens v Harlequins in the company of Derek Williams. We are both fully paid up members of TV-watching as opposed to the stadium attending. We enjoyed the build up with some toasted panini and San Pellegrino Limonatas. In fact the [...]

June 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Fighting nature is sometimes futile

Given its general mission of providing observations upon modern life from the viewpoint of those of us who happen to be beyond the first flush of youth, it would be strange indeed if – amongst all the inevitable and wondrous advances that science, technology and cultural developments bring [...]

June 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Jubilee reflections

Although over the weekend Chez Nous was somewhat dominated by weather considerations – we had two what would normally be regarded as serious “yellow triangle” Thunderstorm Warnings that in the event failed to materialise – by choice I still took the opportunity to dip in and out of the [...]

June 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

1st day of Test: no new dawn, same old precipitation.

The first day at Lords is always a magical event. I always arrive early, not just to avoid the queues, but to take in the atmosphere and to look down at the sward of green and impressive modern and Victorian architecture. Ticket prices were not on my mind but by the end of an eventful day there was [...]

June 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

Sam Burns  won the Charles Schwab US PGA at Colonial Texas and – in another play-off – Victor Perez bested Ryan Fox the Dutch Open. I salvaged some self-respect and moolah with a each-way win on Davis Riley. Riley came on the radar a few months ago. He is a youngster who did well on [...]

June 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Let there be light

Yesterday was a nondescript sort of day with nothing special planned. Then at 10-00am all power terminated in my home. I am familiar with the tripping of the keyboard and assumed that all would and could be corrected. Not so. So I next called up an electrician who walked me through it. At 5-00pm [...]

May 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Poltics and sport

This morning my subject du jour is “Sport and politics don’t mix – discuss”. Like all juicy issues, this one has a number of thorny complications and I intend to begin with the most basic because – my hunch is –  a consensus may not be as hard to establish upon it as some might [...]

May 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

Train travel and shingles

For reasons which need not detain us here, on Sunday afternoon I felt obliged to take a train from the south coast to the outer suburbs of London in readiness for certain commitments that I had in the latter quarter, starting from 0800 hours yesterday. As Molesworth was prone to suggest, “as any [...]

May 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

The PGA

Tomorrow the US PGA starts at the Southern Hills course. The PGA is the poor relation of the 4 Majors. Yet The Open only became competitively of global interest when Arnie Palmer played it and –  as a links course – it’s subject to climatic conditions such as wind. The Masters is [...]

May 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

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