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The price of and on expectation

A good friend of mine who is a well-informed wine connoisseur has been preparing a list of wines from his favoured suppliers. The first list was priced between £8 and £24. The second was more expensive going up to £38. I have yet to taste the second batch but I made the point to my friend that [...]

June 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Professional/W.C Heinz

I can think of many excellent boxing films – Someone up There loves Me, Rocky and Raging Bull – and some great writers and writings on the Noble Art of Boxing, but it’s fiction is harder to find. This is why I enjoyed The Professional.  It’s the story of Eddie Brown [...]

June 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Das Boot (episodes 3 & 4)

Das Boot is for me the most captivating series on TV and after 4 episodes I’m totally hooked. There are three locations each with their own story line and a different language. The first is the U-boat and this is truest to the 1981 film. A U-boat skipper has broken ranks and is about to defect. [...]

June 18, 2020 // 0 Comments

Royal Ascot

It will be interesting to see how the TV companies meet the challenge tonight of covering football behind closed doors. I suspect initially that just to have football back will be sufficient for most fans but after Liverpool have won the title most games will be meaningless. Horse racing is not [...]

June 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Colonial

Great to have live golf back on our screen with the Charles Shwab tourney at Colinial Country Club. The USPGA tourney was won after a play-off by Danny Berger over one of the young tyros who will surely make a big name Colin Morikawa who turned pro this year. He and  Cameron Champ will be two [...]

June 16, 2020 // 0 Comments

Great Paintings of the World/Sunflowers

Andrew Marr continue his series with Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh, one of four of the subject the Dutch master painted. It did not really tell you too much you did not know already but I guess the series is not pitched at the connoisseur – more the interested learner. My friend Martin [...]

June 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Mystery of Henri Pick/ David Foenkinos

The Mystery of Henri Pick is all the reading rage in France. David Foenkinos It is the story of a manuscript discovered in a library in Cruzon, Brittany, which has a section devoted to unpublished works by wannabe writers. A young editress of the publishing house Grassset called Delphine sees her [...]

June 15, 2020 // 0 Comments

England v West Indies 1991 (1st Test)

I watched highlights of this game last night hungry for any sort of cricket. There are those who say a replay is unsatisfying as you know the result. I do not agree. I enjoy seeing cricket as it was competed 30 years ago – the hairstyles, the billboards, the players you have forgotten and [...]

June 14, 2020 // 0 Comments

The umbrella and story unravels

Readers will recall the saga of my garden parasol. My neighbour E had it. She declined my invitation for a barbecue as she is a vegan and offered me a tomato plant. To show that vegans don’t hold the rights on being picky I declined her gift on the grounds I don’t like tomatoes. Not [...]

June 13, 2020 // 0 Comments

Sport returning to TV

Last night I watched the US PGA event at Colonial and Sevilla v Real Betis both behind closed doors. Golf does not need spectators though Harold Varner III, who had earlier kneeled in the Blacks Matter protest (he is one of the few black players on the tour), would have expected come crowd reaction [...]

June 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

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