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Tempus keeps fugitting …

Life has a habit of throwing up happy accidents and/or random interventions that either prove to be decidedly fortuitous or indeed quite the opposite. Only the other day the publisher of this organ mentioned in a conversation that its founders’ original mission had only ever been “to do [...]

July 3, 2022 // 0 Comments

Once more unto the breach …

Regular Rusters may be aware that – possibly in part as a gesture of defiance and/or general “raging against the dying of the light” – from time to time I undertake periods of what might properly be described as regular physical activity but I prefer to pretend are “fitness campaigns”. [...]

July 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Estiatorio Milos

Milos is a Greek fish restaurant at 1 Regent St which I visited for the second time on Wednesday. Like Imperial Treasure (Chinese cuisine), which is opposite, it has raised the bar of ethnic cuisine. Fresh fish is flown in daily. I ordered grilled octopus over Santorini fava  which – in my [...]

July 1, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sussex finally win

Sussex achieved their first win in the Championship since April 2019 over Derbyshire yesterday. This was no mean achievement as Derbyshire posted 550 runs in their first innings. Sussex could not match this but, bizarrely, Derbyshire did not enforce the follow on. Derbyshire lost 7 wickets in [...]

June 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the New Zealand series

One of the ironies of England’s whitewash is the strong New Zealand influence and inspiration. Ben Stokes was born there and new coach Brendan McCullum their finest white ball batter. New Zealand got to the pinnacle by playing the expressive cricket that England have now exposed. This new found [...]

June 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sharks won’t surface

Losing last night to Kent Spitfires ended Sussex Sharks’ T20 campaign as they now have no chance of reaching the quarter finals. There was a slim chance after the victory on Thursday against leaders Surrey ending the latter’s unbeaten record. In truth it was a match that Surrey lost rather [...]

June 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Blue Afternoon

The literary and film device of the flashback and/or flash forward often works well provided there are linkage and revelation. In the last novel I reviewed here Bad Relations it worked particularly well. In William Boyd’s latest The Blue Afternoon it works less well. The story begins in Los [...]

June 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report/Fulham past & present.

A local Fulham supporter who was moving entrusted me with his programme collection which went back to the 1950s. I had a scant recollection of games in the past 10 years but those in the 70s were crystal clear. Of particular interest was the Handbook for season 1971-72. In a column called Looking [...]

June 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

Finally, the world stops going mad

Although this organ’s mission statement and running themes are well known to its adherents – and we need make no apologies for them – I have been reassured to see that recently the world of sports administration seems, after much hang-wringing and procrastination, at last to have [...]

June 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

A First for Matt Fitzpatrick

I had backed Fitzpatrick – and Adam Hadwin who finished 7th – but for the previous tourney the Canada Open. Still full play for the Sheffield lad, who held off the challenges of Will Zalatoris and Scottie Schefffler, to become only the third Englishman to win the US Open in the last 52 [...]

June 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

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