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Gay Pride weekend in Brighton

I have mixed feelings about Gay Pride weekend – known as “ Pride” down here. On one hand, I believe that every person has the right to pursue their sexual orientation free of prejudice victimisation and mocking. On the other hand, 120,000 visitors descend on our city for a weekend of [...]

August 5, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Barnsley 1 Fulham 0

Pargie called to say Fulham were joint favourites with Leeds to win the Championship but watch out for Barnsley. Under new manager Daniel Stendel they not only won promotion from League One but were unbeaten at home. Fulham were never at the races and could have lost by more than 1-0. Although [...]

August 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fake or Fortune

It’s good to see Fake or Fortune back on our screens – not on Sundays at 8.00pm but Thursday evening at 9.00 pm. Its formula of the investigation into whether a painting is genuine or not clearly attracts the viewing public. It’s a bit contrived with the informal chats between presenter [...]

August 3, 2019 // 0 Comments

Magic Flute/Glyndebourne & related PC issues

Yesterday I did something I rarely if ever do, namely to cancel my trip to Glyndebourne to see The Magic Flute. The driver who takes me – normally most reliable – called at midday to report he was unwell. This meant I had to find alternative transport. Other factors in my decision were [...]

July 31, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Club/ Jonathan Clegg & Joshua Robinson

The subtitle of this book is “How the Premier League became the richest, most disruptive business in sport” which reflects a work that is more assertive than analytical. You can tell it’s written by journalists – in this case the Washington Post’s as a historian tends more to rely on [...]

July 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

Le Tour/ final mountain stage

It’s been the most unpredictable and engaging of Tours and yesterday followed this. I switched on early for the category 1 climb of Roselend only to be informed because of hailstorms the race was to be abandoned for the second stage running. It’s a difficult decision for the race organisers who [...]

July 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

Summing up

The trip was a great success despite the heat. Verona is certainly worth a visit for its history, museums, sights, opera and restaurants. We might have a new Rust debate on tour v solo. The tour was well organised and the combination of a tour manager and lecturer worked well. You can opt out and [...]

July 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Verona Opera

Since the raison d’etre of the trip was opera I have been given my very own post on it. It’s unique among international opera for being in an open arena, not an Opera House. This does create problems as the facilities are poor, especially the loos for which you had to queue and were smelly. The [...]

July 27, 2019 // 0 Comments

Fourth day in Verona

It was another full-on day- some achievement as here too we had temperatures in the high 30s. We walked to Castelvecchio. Grandcarne, the greatest of the ruling Scala family, built this castle but it’s now a museum. This contained many art works by Mantegna, Veronese and Tintoretto but sadly no [...]

July 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Verona restaurants

I’ve had 3 meals – all lunches – in our hotel as it’s hit over 37 degrees here and I prefer the air conditioned dining room to the brutal midday heat. The tour has organised trips to a different hostelry every night. The first night we went round the corner to the Osteria Verona [...]

July 25, 2019 // 0 Comments

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