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The Crown/Netflix

Largely out of curiosity I watched the first two episodes of The Crown.   I was particularly curious to see whether my recollection of events tallied with those of the series. In one event, the murder of Prince Louis Mountbatten (played by Charles Dance), they did not. I recall feeling a deep [...]

November 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

Final day of the Masters

Dustin Johnson was a worthy wearer of the Green Jacket as he led from start to finish. Conscious that he had spurned the lead after 54 holes on 4 occasions the phlegmatic world number one must have been worried when he could feel the breathe of Cameron Smith and Sunjae Im in the opening 9 yesterday [...]

November 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Third day of the Masters

The curious thing about the 5 co-leaders after Round Two is that they possess only two Majors between them, one each for Dustin Johnson and Justin Thomas. Dustin’s only one Major  (The US open) in a career in which he has won 23 titles on the USPGA and amassed just under $60m is the strangest, [...]

November 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Day two of the Masters

One of the emerging problems of a curtailed day is that you do not know the tourney leader till the middle of the next day. Thus Jon Rahm at -8 might well overhaul the 5 co-leaders as he has 6 more holes to play. There were two hilarious moment for me. The first  came when the always assertive [...]

November 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

Pay to view

I was relieved that the Premier league has scrapped Pay to View but not for reasons of morality. Of course the Premier League is awash with money because of their TV deals and can afford to be generous but that was not my beef. I found it impossible to sign up for West Ham v Fulham and was dreading [...]

November 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

Masters – first day

No sooner had Gary Player teed off to start the tourney then the heavens opened and we lost 3 hours of play. With an early sunset this meant that not all completed the 18. It is good to see the likeable Paul Casey leading the field at -7 and some of my each way picks – Webb Simpson and [...]

November 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

An exasperating morning

I was commissioned by their old boy’s magazine to do an article on Duncan Grant and Paul Nash who both attended St Paul’s School. I was Head Girl of St Girl’s School, Harriet Harman was a schoolmate, and possibly I am the only arty journo who would do this for free. Truth be told I rather [...]

November 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

Previewing the Masters

The word surreal is often used to describe these pandemic times and it is appropriate for a 2020 golf calendar whose first major – the PGA – is normally the last, no Open at Royal St George’s and the Masters in November. So we are denied the normal preview about the April Azaleas in [...]

November 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Bridge, The Undoing & Good old Poirot

The Bridge reached its finale on Saturday. The big reveal came in the penultimate episode that the murderer was the son of Freddy Holst the millionaire art collector and the murders set up as tableaux of his art works. I should have realised that my choice of murderer – the funeral director [...]

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

The best sport I watched this weekend was by chance the Tri Nation’s rugby international in which Australia beat New Zealand 24-22. I was surprised to see a crowd of over 30,000 in the Brisbane stadium which made me think how much they add to the spectacle. Brisbane has a significant nunber of [...]

November 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

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