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An evening at Windsor Races

Whilst we sporting Rusters often prefer TV-watching to attendance, in recent weeks Duggie Heath has reported from the Lord Test, Ivan Conway from the Oval and yesterday I was at Windsor evening races for its most popular meet on the Monday of Royal Ascot week. Disappointing would be too strong but [...]

June 14, 2022 // 0 Comments

Problems at the Hotel du Vin Cannizaro

Readers will recall my distrust of restaurants with fine views. The same applies to hotels. The Hotel du Vin Cannizaro is a fine white palatial stucco mansion set in parklands by Wimbledon Common. Wimbledon has many amenities: the Common, the All England tennis championship, theatre, a picturesque [...]

June 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

Last night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall I attended a concert given by the Orchestra of the Age of enlightenment (OAE) conducted by Sir Andras Schiff, who also played the piano. The OAE play historic instruments and the piano was a Graf pianoforte. I spent Wednesday evening in the company of a [...]

June 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

I’m a travelling man

Despite still not yet being restored to a position where I can drive on the roads of the UK, despite having served my sentence of six months’ disqualification for amassing 12 speeding penalty points (since when I have not yet been able to find an insurance broker or company that will insure me), [...]

June 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sharks tumble at the Oval

Sussex Sharks were easily beaten by Surrey last night. They posted a meagre total of 146 – with only Fynn Hudson scoring a significant 49 not out – a target which Surrey reached easily with 3 overs to spare. I watched the match as a guest in the excellent corporate hospitality of the [...]

June 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Lady Boys of Bangkok

The Lady Boys of Bangkok are a touring troupe of Thai transvestites who dance, sing and do burlesque and bawdy acts. They normally play in Brighton in a pavilion during the Brighton Festival for a month commencing May 6th.  I went to see them yesterday inviting a young companion. Their’s is [...]

June 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

Resistance/Halik Kochanski

This is a detailed (too detailed in fact) account of the resistance movement in World War Two, principally in France, Norway, the Low Countries and Bohemia. Although the author provides an abundance of statistical information that is difficult to absorb, there is no glossary of the resistance [...]

June 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

And another thing …

Here’s yet another from the proverbial “You Couldn’t Make It Up” folder. Where I now live – for some historical reason I do not yet understand – I have two separate “electricity supply” units. Don’t ask me why. One of them is supplied by Company A and soon after we bought the [...]

June 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Competence and standards in the modern world

These days – where this be a sign of the times or not – this organ feature on its pages tales of contributors or others who run into stark examples of modern “craziness”; complex official administrative or bureaucratic red tape that – for the average Joe in the street –  hinders [...]

May 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

The General and his NCOs

I take no little pride in resolving the cause of my electrical failure. The tripping was occurring – apparently without cause – but at six hourly intervals. By the logical deduction for which I am known, it had to be linked to a timed device which could only be the boiler. The [...]

May 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

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