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A la Colthard/ The Little Fish Market

The Independent in its travel section ran an interesting feature on 48 hours in Brighton. In the restaurant section they recommended The Salt Room and the Little Fish Market. I have never visited the latter so off I went with a French girlfriend last night. It’s a small restaurant in Hove [...]

June 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A worthy reunion

Yesterday my brother and I went for lunch with my father and his oldest pal Patrick, who is now over ninety. As it was also the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, we had decided to celebrate that with a bottle of champagne and various props including British, French and Italian (well, it [...]

June 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Another day at the coast

Yesterday in the dead of night I was obliged to drive for an hour and a half for a rendezvous at the M2 service station nearest the A3 turn-off at 0400 hours. The purpose of this ridiculous expedition was to lend my brother my ‘Continental legally-required’ set of self-administering [...]

June 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sport and drugs (revisited)

Being a hard-liner upon the subject of performance-enhancing drugs being taken in sport, I’m delighted to highlight any opinion or development that is likely to expose the cheats and indeed the hypocrisy of those sports administrators and others who don’t really want to upset the apple [...]

June 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

Life on the ocean wave

Towards the end of last week I travelled to stay with my father at the coast for about ten days – part of the reason being to sail in an annual regatta which takes place in June. This year my father is celebrating his half-century as owner/skipper of his 21 feet (at the waterline) keel boat which [...]

June 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Well, it’s not rocket science!

Today the media is reporting that, whilst a woman’s health is relatively unaffected by whether she is single, together in a relationship or married, that of a man is actually improved by getting married. (Yes, some might argue, a man’s chances of suffering strained muscles or back [...]

June 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Hakassan

There is a humourous passage in a David Lodge novel where English literary professors compete for the most famous book they have never read and one boasts he has never read a word of Jane Austen. At a Rust reunion the sports guys were talking of the great events they have never attended. This made [...]

June 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

A chance encounter (with a razor)

Back around 1970 the worst thing that any teenager could imagine happening to them was probably a case of disfigurement (e.g. an outbreak of spots) the day before an important first date. Yesterday, way past my sixtieth birthday I suffered an oldie’s equivalent when, having arranged to meet a [...]

June 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Not all developments are advances

Flibanserin. Write that down, ladies – … ‘FLIB … AN … SER … IN’. Apparently, when you’re in Tesco’s tomorrow morning after dropping the kids off at school and firing up your first wash of the day, make sure you pop by at the pharmacy counter and pick up a set of four boxes of [...]

June 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Radio 5 sport- too PC?

There is much sport to savour this weekend with two showpiece events: the Derby and Champions League Final. John Pargiter will be watching the golf at Memorial where the Tiger Woods game is now restored if not match winning. Andy Murray is making a fist of it against the invincible Djorkovic and [...]

June 6, 2015 // 1 Comment

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