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Fest by Robert McCrum

Fest by Robert McCrum is both a murder story and pastiche on literary festivals. It probably succeeds better as the former. McCrum was the distinguished editor of Faber for many years and knows the publishing world intimately. The result was that the satire on literary festivals was rather [...]

July 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Assessing the season

A slick  season ticket pack has now arrived.  It reprised encounters of yore with teams we are facing this season in the championship. For Ipswich we went back to the 10-1 thrashing, except that Graham Leggat ‘s hat-trick was in four minutes, not three. As for the getting ‘nowhere [...]

July 29, 2014 // 3 Comments

Another enjoyable outing

Flushed with heady enthusiasm as a result of gaining permission from the National Rust editor to post twice in twenty four hours, today I report upon a golf match with my two brothers, the latest in a keenly-contested series that has been running since about 1968. It was undertaken at Goodwood [...]

July 23, 2014 // 0 Comments

Good fun as it transpired

Last night I attended the sixtieth birthday party of my brother at a tennis club he’d hired for the purpose. It wasn’t actually his birthday – that had occurred a month previously – but presumably this was the first and/or most convenient date upon which his chosen venue had next been [...]

July 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Enough is enough

One of the few plusses of sliding beyond a certain age is that, whatever your views, they tend to become more strident and either black or, alternatively, white. I find that my youthful wishy-washy liberal desire to see all sides of every argument has tended to recede into the rear-view mirror as I [...]

July 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

Daphne du Maurier’s inspirations

I went on a tour of Fowey as the guide is an acknowledged expert on Daphne du Maurier. We passed the pub which featured in My Cousin Rachel. On a sparkling day the harbour glowed with marine life. Here in June 1932 Daphne and her husband Boy Browning took his boat up stream to be married and [...]

July 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fun times, methinks!

Yesterday’s Coalition government reshuffle was described as many things, but most consistently as a means of establishing the team that David Cameron feels can win the Tories next year’s General Election. On that subject, for me, the jury is still out. It’s far easier to list the reasons [...]

July 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Post-round round-up

The qualifying round in the World Cup is a bit like losing your virginity; you want to get over it with the minimum of embarrassment. It’s not that accurate an indicator of who will win. This tends to be the team that gathers momentum. Italy, for example, only got 3 points in 1982 in the [...]

June 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Welcoming back an old friend

I awoke this morning ruminating upon the vicissitudes of growing old. Partly this was the result of spending another six hours of fun out upon the water yesterday, watching keel boats racing in a regatta, at times having to ‘manage’ my own mobility issues caused by an arthritic hip. As my three [...]

June 21, 2014 // 0 Comments

Defending the indefensible

Had Sepp Blatter  retired two terms ago , he would have been recognised as the great administrator but, as so often happens, he stayed too long and has become a disliked and disrespected figure. His great contribution was  the globalisation of the game. It’s not really perceived here as [...]

June 19, 2014 // 0 Comments

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