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Oklahoma! – Chichester Festival Theatre

Readers might recall that when I purchased my matinee ticket for Oklahoma the box office informed me it was a “relaxed” performance. This was defined in the programme as one for those in the autistic spectrum. The box office lady said I should expect some attending to shout out and move about [...]

August 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

OGC NICE

Michel de Vacri The big news here is the takeover of OGC Nice by British businessmen James and Bob Ratcliffe. They seem to be better known here than in the UK. James lives in Cap Ferrat and owns the ILEOS pharmaceutical company that took over the SKY cycling team who are based in Monaco. Last night [...]

August 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /The Ram Inn at Firle

I differ from some of my fellow reviewers as I do not cover the latest restaurant opening but rather have my faves and non-faves which I update. One of these faves is the Ram Inn at Firle on the A27 near Lewes and not far from Glynedebourne. It has a rambling garden, cosy interior and reliable and [...]

August 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Inside Aldi/ Channel 5

Last night I watched a fascinating documentary on the German – but now international – supermarket chain Aldi. In 1946 Frau Albrecht opened a food store in Essen and her two sons Karl and Theo took the basic model of making the food sold as cheap as possible and turned this into a [...]

August 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

My weekend

Observant readers will note the omission of “Sporting” in the title. This was because “family” might be the better word. We had invited my brother and his family for the day to our coastal home. They number ten and with other guests this was 13 in all. I had agreed to this day as [...]

August 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Nottingham Forest 2

All sort of excuses were made for this poor performance and home defeat: 2 matches in a week, yesterday’s conditions of sapping heat, a poor referee ignoring 3 handball penalty appeals, no plan B when the possession and elaborate passing game faltered. I saw it differently: Forest were the better [...]

August 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sharks falter

Sussex Sharks should all have guaranteed a home quarter final but after losing to Essex Eagles by 9 runs it was not to be. The biggest cheer of the night was the announcement that Jofra Archer took 6-45 in the Test at Headingley. Brighton is a tolerant place and the Sussex CCC has a long and [...]

August 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 4 Millwall 0

This thrashing drew comparison with the pleasing, passing performances of Slavisa Jokatovic that won us promotion but I would go further back in Fulham time to the Championship winning side of Jean Tigana of the late 1990s. Tigana’s side began with 11 straight wins in the Championship but Scott [...]

August 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

Sussex beat Middlesex in Championship

I watched a lively third day of the Championship match with Middlesex which Sussex won by 7 wickets with a day to spare. Speedster Ollie Robinson will remember the match for some time: he won his cap and took 14 wickets for 135 runs. If there was not such a plethora of English international pacemen [...]

August 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Man that Got Away/Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss is an established comic writer. This is her second Constable Twitten detective novel which is also highly humourous. At the heart of this fiction set in Brighton in the 1950s lies not Constable Peregrine Twitten (named after a path way in Rottingdean) but Mrs Palmeira (a well-known [...]

August 20, 2019 // 0 Comments

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