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It’s going to work out fine!

Having landed in Sicily on Saturday evening our family party is now resident in its villa on the southeast side of the island. I intend to provide snapshot reports in case they are of interest to National Rust readers. DAY ONE (TRAVEL) Our travel day was, as expected, long and not without [...]

August 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sussex sport update

I said to Alan Tanner that we two have much in common: no points, relegation positions but at least you have scored a goal. I did not go Birmingham where the Seagulls lost 1-0 but by all accounts we were pretty dire. Sami Hyppia has got in two midfielders Teixeira from his old stomping ground [...]

August 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Keeping in touch

There are reports in the media this week that sales of music magazines may be in terminal decline – see here for an example, published today on the website of – THE GUARDIAN The question is asked ‘Who reads them these days?’ I do, for one. Whenever I travel by train or Tube into central [...]

August 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

An overnight sensation

It would be wrong to pretend that there are many advantages to being a lifelong early bird, but one of them is the opportunity it gives an individual to watch, live on television, era-defining events (often sporting) taking place in the United States of America which, depending upon which time zone [...]

August 11, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report

It was a very much ‘getting-to-know-you’ day in the 2-1 defeat to Ipswich.  Getting to know eight debutants and a new habitat. However, the final taste was deja vu: how many times in the last 14 years have we seen the boys play pretty stuff, fall behind and rally in the last quarter [...]

August 10, 2014 // 2 Comments

I had a dream

My earliest memories of playing sport, indeed probably of anything, go back only as far as the early 1960s, midway through my five-year incarceration in a seaside boarding preparatory school deep in the heart of East Sussex. There must have been times when we attended classes and attempted academic [...]

August 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Inevitable, I suppose

A while back, commenting upon the influence – and not always in a good way – of grubby business practices upon the world of elite sport, I made mention of Bernie Ecclestone’s German potentially-catastrophic court case in which he had been accused of bribery on a grand scale. Today we [...]

August 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard; Murrays Chichester

As dear old Bob Tickler made it abundantly clear he was not staying in Brighton, we killed two birds with one stone when he invited me to the Chichester Festival Theatre for a matinee performance of Miss Julie and Black Comedy and I wanted to check out the local restaurants for my Sussex Guide: [...]

August 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Victory … and a chance discovery

This will not become a habit, I promise – posting twice in two days, I mean! Yesterday I offered a snapshot of Harlequins’ coming rugby season from a fan’s point of view and today, having by chance last night alighted on the live BT Sports television coverage, I can now report upon the [...]

August 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

An Evening with Mike Yardy and Luke Wright

Last night I was invited to an intimate cricket dinner at the Sussex cricket museum at Hove in aid of the Mike Yardy benefit. Sussex CCC has certainly improved in terms of amenities and performance these past few years, mainly due to a generous legacy of £16m. Sussex is a proud sporting county [...]

July 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

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