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When will we learn ?

In 1968 when t was at school one of my best pals – then and now – had a father involved in cricket and one of his charges were the International Cavaliers, a troupe of international cricketers like the Harlem Globe Trotters, sponsored by cigarette company Rothmans. They had come to [...]

August 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

I stand corrected

I am grateful to a reader and friend for pointing out an error. In a recent piece I said that Winston Churchill was not a movie buff. In fact he loved the cinema and converted the dining room at Chartwell to a private cinema. His favourite film was Lady Hamilton starring Laurence Olivier and [...]

August 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

Murder by Milk Bottle /Lynne Truss

This is Lynne Truss’ fourth novel in the Constable Twitten series and not the best. It is set in the her familiar milieu of 1950s Brighton where a series of murders are committed with a milk bottle. The novel has humour and a good sense of time and location but there are a number of weaknesses : [...]

August 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Modern Garden: from Monet to Matisse

SKY ARTS continued their excellent series on exhibitions last night with this one at the Royal Academy. Gardens, like pictures of them, are intensely visual. So they work well in translation to television. The programme highlighted Monet and his garden at Giverny. A few years ago in Paris I made [...]

August 25, 2020 // 0 Comments

Bayern 1 PSG 0

You can pretty much know in advance that when the pundits talk in advance of a goal fest in a Champions League final it will be a cagey affaire. And so it proved. Only one goal divided the teams. In a game of few opportunities Bayern’s keeper Manuel Neuer – mainly with his right leg – [...]

August 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

Mervyn LeRoy, Sean Connery and Nazi Titanic

Over the weekend I caught up with The Directors series on Mervyn Le Roy, watched a tribute to Sean Connery on his 85th birthday and a documentary on a Goebbels-backed film on the Titanic. I suspect  that Mervyn LeRoy is a name with which you are unfamiliar. He made Little Caesar and Fugitive from [...]

August 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sevilla 3 Inter Milan 2

It was just as well for BT Sport that this match was a thriller as their pre-match coverage of it was dire. I had hoped, switching on at 7pm, that the issues of the game might be covered. There was an interesting Premiership element as Antonio Conte had managed Chelsea and now Inter with Lukaku, [...]

August 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Something of a first

Yesterday for the first time I attended by Zoom a memorial service to commemorate the life of an old family friend. The person whom I will refer to as J was a real character. He dressed and behaved like a Lord but never as far as I knew had any career. He was entertaining, a beau, a gentleman of [...]

August 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

New season fixtures

The release of the the fixtures yesterday for season 2020/21 is always a highlight though at this stage you can only pencil these in as tv will make their choice. Fulham open with an enticing game v Arsenal at Craven Cottage and it’s likely to be televised. The choice – dilemma might be a [...]

August 21, 2020 // 0 Comments

“You ought to check it out”

A familiar subject on the Rust is health for the senior citizen. One of my colleagues posted about a spidery mark on his forehead which when checked by a dermatologist proved to be nothing sinister. I had a similar issue with my calf and foot which have been swelling. It causes neither discomfort [...]

August 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

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