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The Tanner Teport : should SJ go or should he stay?

Fulham have now lost 4 games om the bounce and conceded 28 goals so at very least coach Slavisa Jokatovic must be feeling the heat. After another comprehensive home loss 0-3 to Bournemouth I now ask the question should he go or stay? The arguments for dismissal are that he does not know his best [...]

October 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

Wine tasting/champagne and sparkling wines

Several Rusters are involved in courses; Alice (Mansfield) goes to an art course on British modernism, Bob (Tickler) and Ivan ( Conway) on languages,  all at their local learning centre and I attend irregularly a wine course. There is a common denominator as in every one there is a a know-all [...]

October 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Friday night meal

Yesterday my godson Jamie and his mother C and I were invited for a Sabbath meal by my niece. She comes from an orthod0x Jewish family and it was very much the traditional meal. C is a RI teacher and always eager to see at first hand religious practices. Amongst these Jewish orthodox practices are [...]

October 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Sandham Chapel

Yesterday in the company of Alice Mansfield and Douglas Heath I visited the Stanley Spencer chapel in Burghclere, Newbury. For a number of reasons I was underwhelmed. First the chapel itself seems more a modern crematorium more than a spiritual place. Second, it had a rather confused gestation. The [...]

October 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

A Visit to Tate Britain

Yesterday I went on a curated art tour of Tate Britain as an accompaniment to our course on British twentieth century art. In my opinion there are three ways to enjoy public art and one way not to. The three ways are a viewing at a dealer, at an auction house and the standing collection of museum [...]

October 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

The art of conversation

According to Arthur Nelson the young have lost the art of conversation but yesterday proved that amongst our Rust Belters it’s still going strong. At 31 my p/a Polly is hardly blue rinse let alone silvery, indeed as a triathlete she is a picture of glowing health looking like a Nordic ski [...]

October 23, 2018 // 0 Comments

A new number one and an old one refinds form

I doubt if many outside golf and a few inside it would recognise Brooks Koepka if he passed them in the street but they should do as the thrice Major champion is now golf number one. He achieved this by winning the  CJ Cup in a handsome fashion. After he won the US Open no one wanted to interview [...]

October 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

Reflections of a couch potato

Yesterday I spent most of the day watching golf and soccer on the tv. I started in the early hours with the CT Cup in Nine Bridges, Jeju Island, South Korea – a USPGA Tour event but part of the South East Asia swing. I have never been to South Korea but over the last year or so have had a few [...]

October 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

An Aggers /Johnston moment

For many the funniest-ever broadcast was when Jonathan Agnew and Brian Johnston lost it in a fit of giggles after Aggers said Ian Botham could not quite his leg over. I later found out that the producer was less than amused and the two were never paired again. Yet even today when I hear it I [...]

October 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

The journey from hell

One of my favourite films is Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), starring Steve Martin and John Candy. Steve Martin, an advertising executive, has to get back from New York to Chicago for thanksgiving. It rapidly turns into a journey from hell, shared by John Candy – a shower curtain [...]

October 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

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