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A la Colthard/Cannizzaro House Wimbledon

The main assets of Cannizaro House are its gardens and the white palladian villa. Its location is on the west side of Wimbledon Common within walking distance of the buzzy village. Wimbledon’s (District Line) Tube station takes you into central London and its rail station is one stop away [...]

June 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne)

This was an excellent production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia Rossini’s great opera buffa (comic opera), based upon the play by Pierre Beaumarchais. The story is of the triumph of true love: that of Count Almaviva (Jonah Hoskins) and Rosina (Cecilia Molinari), the ward of Dr. Bartolo who also [...]

May 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

A great weekend of Sussex Sport

Brighton trounced Spurs 4-1 away and finished  in 8th spot with the very remote possibility of European competition (if so they might well meet Fiorentina) and Sussex are now second in the Championship after beating Hampshire. The win in 3 days was achieved without Ollie Robinson and Dan Hughes [...]

May 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Manchester City 2

For this game Fulham had rested Calvin Bassey, Sandor Berge, Ryan Sessegnon, Adama Trioré, whilst City had no starting places for Rodri, de Bruyne, Anke, Foden or Ederson (who were on the bench) or for Jack Grealish who did not even travel. Fulham could not afford the £100m paid for Grealish and [...]

May 27, 2025 // 0 Comments

Two American songbook concerts (BBC 4)

Last night I watched a recording of an Ethel Merman concert that she gave years ago and another on BBC 4 of  Kiri Te Kanawa, Jeremy Irons and Warren Mitchell singing songs from My Fair Lady. I guess this original Albert Hall concert would have taken place some thirty years ago. The problem is [...]

May 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

Sporting Saturday

The best part of the Test Match between England and Zimbabwe was for me the former Zimbabwean cricketer Henry Olongo singing the (Les Miserables) song Take Me Home. Frankly, whilst Zimbabwe played with spirit they were outclassed. Henry and Andy Flower voiced publicly their criticism of the Mugabe [...]

May 25, 2025 // 0 Comments

Seeing Each Other/Pallant Gallery Chichester

Once again the Pallant has been innovative in an exhibition of portraits of artists by artists. It’s well-curated and ordered chronologically but the actual portraits are of variable quality. As you arrive you see a “Wanted Poster” of a Lucian Freud portrait of his (then close friend) [...]

May 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

Final day: Sussex beat Worcestershire

Sussex beat Worcestershire by 47 runs, making heavy weather of it. The morning was grey and dank but the moisture in the air assisted seam. Ollie Roberson bowled his heart out, beating the bat on several occasions, but took no wickets. His spell of 9 overs on the bounce belied his image of lack of [...]

May 13, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Everton 3

The walk alongside the Thames from Putney Bridge is often heralded as the loveliest way to à football stadium. Yesterday I walked in a different direction – along the towpath from Hammersmith – and it was no less lovely. Blocks of flats have been built where one flat must cost £1 [...]

May 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Worcestershire/first day

It was a topsy turvy day at Hove. The Sussex pace attack was denuded by the loss of Jayden Seales and Danny Lamb – so John Hayes was borrowed from Nottinghamshire – and Ari Karvalas was selected.Tom Haines and Dan Hughes set up an opening platform of 80 but wickets then tumbled either [...]

May 10, 2025 // 0 Comments

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