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A good lunch

The late Keith Waterhouse wrote a book about lunch. He would write all morning and then enjoy a long and boozy lunch. Such lunches have passed out of fashion. These days I favour a light lunch at home with a fruity San Pellegrino and a M& S fruit jelly. Yesterday however an old friend of mine [...]

March 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Plot Against America / Philip Roth ( 2005)

I read this book for the second after time after finishing Those Angry Days (Lynne Olsen). Both cover that period in America from 1939 onwards when the nation was divided between isolationists and interventionists in regard to joining the war against Nazi Germany. In Roth’s work Charles Lindbergh [...]

March 6, 2020 // 0 Comments

Same old, same old

I sometimes wonder whether when we Rusters appear a service a notice comes up to the provider: “Ruster alert, be unhelpful” One of my colleagues was berating the dilatory nature in which a finance house produced paperwork – or failed to. I was promised that a pack crystallising a stagnant [...]

March 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

A satisfying chess win

One of the most interesting aspects of this fascinating game of chess is the sacrifice. If you try and solve a chess puzzle there is normally a forced mate through sacrifice. However you can sacrifice early on in a game for positional advantage. This happened to me recently in a game against Start [...]

March 4, 2020 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

As ever, after a winning run with 4 wins at Plumpton and Adam Scott, it was inevitable my luck would turn. I was on Tommy Fleetwood for the Honda on the Jack Nicklaus-designed Palm Beach course with its treacherous Bear Trap on holes  16/17/18. Tommy, the highest rated player in the world not to [...]

March 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Klimt jigsaw

One of the columns I most enjoy is Mary Killen’s in The Spectator. She advises on the sort of problem that anguish the haute bourgeoisie but younger readers would not understand at all. It’s usually some breach of social etiquette that makes the Spectator reader seek her counsel. This week, [...]

March 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

BRIGHTON 0 CRYSTAL PALACE 1

It’s bad enough losing to a bottom table side without that team being your hated rivals Crystal Palace. Generally-speaking the Seagulls fans are a cheerful lot, grateful to be at the top table, but when it comes to Palace we display a different and less attractive side. The Amex stadium is [...]

March 1, 2020 // 0 Comments

Uncut Gems and Ernst Lubitsch

Two film buffs I know well recommended to me Uncut Gems. One described it well as a New York Jewish Del-Boy film. Howie Rayner is a gem dealer living life on its edge. Up to his knees in debt because of his gambling he acquires a rock from an Ethiopian mine with an opal in it. A top basketball [...]

February 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Swansea 0, and social media.

Alex Mitrovic was not having a good game against Swansea. Three chances which he would have normally converted went astray before he muffed a penalty in the 87th minute. Oh well another 3 points lost. Then Abou Kamara in the final minute crossed and there  was Mitro to head home. That is a true [...]

February 28, 2020 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ 24 hours dining in London

I had a whirlwind trip to London in which I visited three of my favourite restaurants: Fischers, the Wolseley and the Goring. I have reviewed these often enough so I will only say that all three maintained  their high standards of cuisine, comfort and service. At the Wolseley I gave an old friend [...]

February 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

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