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Italian Wine and Food Evening

Yesterday I attended an Italian wine and food evening. Italy is the biggest producer of wine in the world with more grape varieties (400-500) than any other country – France for example has only 150. Because Italy was only united in 1861, regional identities are still strong and this is [...]

May 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Murmur

The sea front at Brighton has had something of a makeover and is no longer its tawdry self. There is the Harbour Restaurant with its excellent Jetty restaurant , the i360 Watchtower, Shelter Hall, a Victorian Palladian sea-front shelter is being restored and there are now two ‘go to’ [...]

May 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

Sometimes it’s enough to drive you mad

As I begin today’s post I feel I need to declare the warning/caveat or interest that I’m not quite sure where it’s going to be going. Actually no – let me put that another way: I know roughly where I’m starting from but at this stage have no idea where I’m going to end up. I guess [...]

May 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

The facts of sporting life

On the subject of female sport and the general (absurd) drive to ‘increase diversity/equality’ by pretending that all women’s sport is at least as important as men’s and should therefore be given equal billing, radio/television coverage and indeed money … Here’s [...]

May 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / The Ivy in the Lanes

The Ivy in London opened in 1917. Beloved by Noel Coward and the theatre set it became enormously popular once again in the 80s and 90s and is now part of the Richard Caring Restaurant empire (Scott’s, Annabels). Many a naughty afternoon in West End hotel began with champagne and Lobster [...]

May 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

A non-downfall (and my part in it)

With the Harlequins now dispersed and probably lying on beaches around the world – and I learned overnight that the club have approached the RFU having apparently decided that Paul Gustard (one of Eddie Jones’ chosen coaches) is their preferred choice of new head coach – there were at [...]

May 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

Ticket office travails

The Fulham ticket office was for years manned by Sandra whom everybody knew, loved and trusted. Whenever there was a big game and tickets were an issue it was a case of “Get onto Sandra”. She was the type to be chosen as employee of the year as she knew her business and was more than helpful in [...]

May 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

Some items of potential interest

From time to time on this organ our contributors take turns to scour the internet looking for media reports as part of our general service to provide a ‘window upon the world passing by’ for our readers of a certain age who might otherwise have neither the time nor inclination to seek such [...]

May 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

Still not in it! Phew …

Yesterday I spent my early evening flicking through The Sunday Times Rich List, a pastime that I’m sure many people do simply to marvel at how the other half – or should that be the 0.00005% – live. My day began by popping over the road to get my Sunday newspapers as my local corner shop [...]

May 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

The art of being careful what you wish for

Yesterday I joined a conversation in which the subject of Brexit came up. I promise you this was absolutely was none of my making. It against a background in which Neil Kinnock has just castigated the Labour Party for its stance, or non-stance, on the issue and the House of Lords is doing its best [...]

May 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

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