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Michel de Vacri It takes more than Brexit, the July 14 terrorist attack and the slump in the pound to prevent the spring trip of National Rust to my city. I was delighted that not only Alice, Daphne, Nancy and Robert with his two p/as Grania and Polly were coming here but also Lavinia and Simon to [...]

March 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

SSGB

Sunday night was the final episode of SSGB and the series has been well received. The plot line is complex if not convoluted with many paths off it: the removal out of occupied Britain of nuclear research and the flight of the ageing infirm King George. This was in the context of 3 groups, the [...]

March 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Arsene of the Arsenal?

I have no particular allegiance to the Arsenal though I have several friends who are fanatics. I have viewed the final reign of Arsenal Wenger with interest but indignation too. Some time ago wiseacres were saying that he had the right to determine when he would go. This is plainly nonsense and [...]

March 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 1 Wolves 3

Fulham are the Arsenal of the Championship with our passing game so pleasant on the eye but ineffective against teams who scrap. Harold Wilson famously observed that a week is a long time in politics, it certainly is at Fulham. A week ago we beat league Newcastle 3-1 then only achieved 1 point from [...]

March 19, 2017 // 0 Comments

This and that

Like many, though not as devotedly as Ivan Conway and Alan Tanner, I am following the Championship with interest particularly the race for the play-offs which is boiling up nicely. Last night Huddersfield in 3rd place played lowly Bristol City and Reading in 5th went to Sheffield Wednesday 6th. My [...]

March 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Daunts book festival/ Rogues Gallery and East West Street

Yesterday with Melanie Gay, Bob Tickler, Stefan Ursolini and Ken Howard I attended a book event at Daunts showcasing the above books both of which I enjoyed. Philip Mould, the fluent charming art dealer who appears in both the Antiques Road Show and Fake or Fortune, interviewed Philip Hook the [...]

March 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

A few days in London

I arrived from Florence at the start of the week. I stayed at the Copthorne Hotel, Stamford Bridge where the Manchester United players were too for the FA Cup quarter final. In Italy only Juventus own their own stadium so you would never see such a complex of 2 hotels, restaurants and bars within a [...]

March 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 Blackburn 2

Over the years I have followed the whites I have witnessed Fulham extricate themselves from seemingly impossible situations to survive a relegation battle but equally let us down in expectation in failling to win a vital, winnable game. Years ago I can recall a Friday night game against Blackburn [...]

March 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Golden Hill/Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford is a historian and broadcaster whose first effort at fiction wring is Golden Hill and it’s good. He has written a novel set in middle of the eighteenth century and in the style of Henry Fielding. It’s set in New York, not the heaving massive metropolis we know today but [...]

March 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Malmaison Brighton

I have already visited the new Malmaison in Brighton Marina for breakfast when a refurb was in course so I thought I would go back with a French girlfriend in the event businesss. They acquired the hotel, formerly the Seattle, for £36m and spent another £3m on the refurb. It bore the familiar [...]

March 13, 2017 // 0 Comments

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