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Wow! The opening night of a brand new season

The currently-embattled Football Association’s new Women’s Super League season kicked off last night with the female version of a famous ‘city derby’ match between Everton Ladies and Liverpool Ladies played at Widnes. Reports of the match will testify that the match ended in a 0-2 [...]

September 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

The complexities of life

Sometimes the issues attendant upon possessing and living with an elderly relative are, or gradually become, complex, disarming, enlightening and occasionally bizarre. Perhaps, simply because human society is such a contrary and wonderful thing, nobody should be surprised about this. In addition, [...]

September 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Looking without touching

Yesterday, a freebie ticket having come my way, I visited the 2017 Southampton Boat Show. Over the past decade and a half I would say I’ve averaged roughly a visit every other year to this annual event – not a bad score for someone who does not consider themselves a sailor. My reasons for [...]

September 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Flying down to Rio

No doubt those Rusters who are sports fans will have done a double-take over their muesli bowls and toast & marmalade this morning when chancing upon the media story that Rio Ferdinand, legendary former Manchester United and England defender, is switching sports to become a professional boxer [...]

September 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

The future is already here, as well as in the future

When it comes to the relationship between audiences and movies or television programmes, the different sectors in the entertainment industry are split into quite simple divisions. Firstly, the production – the process of deciding what to make, whom to hire to make it (e.g. scriptwriters, [...]

September 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ The Caxton Grill

With two caveats the dining experience at the Caxton Grill was first class. Normally I am not one for offers through internet intermediaries but meeting an old friend – not that sort!!!! – in Victoria I came across the Caxton Grill off Victoria Street and an offer of 3 courses plus [...]

September 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Grooming and relationships

On this organ we sometimes poke fun at the ways of the media – you know the sort of thing, ‘silly summer stories’, spectacular ‘fails’ going viral, and of course the time-honoured staple of madcap scientific surveys with blanket generalisations for conclusions that are either [...]

September 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

M & S

I had an interesting lunch with Bob Tickler in which he expanded on his theory that an investor should understand both product and service as well as the financial state of a company. We discussed Marks and Spencers, now caught up by the online retailer ASOS. As part of my brief for another [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

Monday shopping nightmare

On Monday of this week I went shopping at my local well-known supermarket store. I registered that the omens were not good the moment that I drove down the driveway to the car park and spied that it was packed with cars – and so it proved. I should add here the information that (and I do not [...]

September 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

The art of earning respect

As any fule no (reference Nigel Molesworth, the fictitious character invented by Geoffrey Willians, first appearance in Down With Skool (1953), illustrations by Ronald Searle of St Trinians fame, public recitations of which by our deputy headmaster were a staple of Saturday afternoons from about [...]

September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

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