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Quiz night

On Saturday night I attended a quiz night to raise funds for a local adult learning centre I attend. It was was bucketing down all day and I had 10 minutes from my previous appointment to give my cat his insulin injection, shower and change and organise myself. That feeling of rush is a difficult [...]

November 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

On the tee with Pargie

For the fourth time out of five thanks to Jeremy Chapman I nabbed a winner in John Rahm. Ram trousered $5 million as he won the Race to Dubai as well as the DP event on the Jumeireh course. Comparisons were inevitably made to Seve Ballesteros and Rahm knew his Spanish golfers, even citing Seve’s [...]

November 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

BRIGHTON 0 LEICESTER CITY 2

I’m not a great one for stats but there is one that says it all about this match – Brighton did not manage one shot on goal. For the first half the Seagulls held out redoubtedly in a performance that was more Chris Hughton than Graham Potter. Just as we were applying more pressure at the [...]

November 24, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report; Fulham 2 QPR 1

The prodigal son returns. Last season Abou Kamara disrupted a yoga class, held the ball for a penalty from the clutches of regular taker Alex Mitrovic and missed it and, after a bust up with staff at the training ground, he was arrested and shipped out on loan to a Turkish club. Most of us thought [...]

November 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

Rise and Kill First/ Ronen Bergman

Thi is an account of the targeted assassinations conducted by the Caesarea unit of the Mossad. The writer does not take a sympathetic stance and states their futility. Although the killings were sanctioned by the Prime Minister, the Mossad soon became a state within a state and though subject to [...]

November 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fidelio

In the music course at which I am an irregular attender we have been studying Beethoven. He only wrote one opera which is surprising as the other three major composers of the Viennese School – Haydn, Mozart and Schubert wrote many. He was not short of librettos and many music scholars are [...]

November 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

Navy socks and TV bollocks

You might have thought that the purchasing of a pair of plain navy socks would be easy but apparently not. In the week I went to the flagship John Lewis store in Oxford St as I like their menswear department with the object of acquiring some navy socks. Amongst the multi-coloured pairs I could only [...]

November 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

Preview of Modern British at Christie’s

Yesterday I attended a preview of an auction of Modern British art held by Christies. All the big names were there – L.S Lowry, Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, Walter Sickert, Graham Sutherland – though their representative work was not of their highest quality. One of the factors in [...]

November 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

Robert Mitchum and Winds of War

The recent reference in Bernadette’s (Angell) negative review of World on Fire to Winds of War prompted me to acquire the 6 DVDs of the series and revisit the career of Robert Mitchum, one of my favourites of the leading Hollywood actors. Robert Mitchum was certainly not yer normal Hollywood [...]

November 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

A crackpot scheme

Labour’s election pledge to deliver free broadband by 2030 has been more or less capsized on techno, financing and competitiveness grounds but – for me – the greatest idiocy as outlined in the scheme by John McConnell is that, due to the size of the investment, Labour would take it [...]

November 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

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