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Oklahoma! BBC Proms John Wilson Orchestra

The distinction between popular and classical music is becoming more and more blurred and much is due for this to The John Wilson Orchestra who regularly appear at the Proms and at a production at Glyndebourne of Madame Butterfly I saw last October. The orchestra faithfully plays the music of the [...]

August 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Middlesex beat Sussex Sharks (t20)

Yesterday I went to the T20 game at Lords between Middlesex and Sussex Sharks with Ivan Conway. Neither of us are devotees of this format and nothing we experienced yesterday altered our view. Why so? First there is the noise. Ivan said it was as if we went to a classical music concert of say [...]

August 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The US PGA

The US PGA is the poor relation of the 4 majors. It’s the last to be played and can clash with the Olympics though next year it is scheduled for May. Rory McIlroy is supportive of this. Rory is not a boastful character but he must be mindful that his first major , the PGA at Winged Foot was [...]

August 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Cast a Giant Shadow

Cast a Giant Shadow is a proper war film with a back story – several in fact – fine acting from some Hollywood legends and battle action sequences. I am a bit of glutton for films on Israel’s formation. The most famous is Exodus. It’s so long that American humourist Mort [...]

August 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Pride weekend

Last weekend some 300,000 people visited Brighton for pride weekend. The fact that ‘gay’ has been dropped is significant as the 48 hours of Bacchanalian revelry has little to do with gay celebration and more an annual party that is beneficial for restaurants, bars and letting agencies. [...]

August 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brighton 2 Atletic Madrid 3

After this game from which, thanks to the incompetence of Southern Railway, I had one and a half hour journey home which could have been accomplished in 15 minutes by road I was more anxious to contribute to the attendance v tv debate than review Brighton’s chances of survival as the campaign [...]

August 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report : Fulham 1 Norwich 1

The start of a new season – earlier than usual this year – is a time for aspiration, introduction and association. Aspiration: after reaching the play-offs and losing to Reading after 2 poor refereeing decisions, Fulham were amongst the favourites for automatic promotion. Introduction: [...]

August 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

Summing up

Despite poor weather we all enjoyed the du Maurier piligrimage. Our perception that Cornwall was doing well was confirmed by a friend of mine, a local travel guide. He said that on wet Wednesday 12,000 people visited the Eden Project. His view was that a weak pound made travel to mainland Europe [...]

August 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Cornish Restaurant update

I have been uniformly impresseed by the service , price and freshness of food at all the Cornish restaurants we have visited on the trip. HAVENERS This used to be called Food for Thought but the owner had his collar felt for unlawful abstraction of gas. It’s now owned by St Austell Brewery [...]

August 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

Based on a True Story/ Delphine de Vigan

The other day I was listening to the book programme A Good Read when the presenter Harriet Gilbert took an audible intake of breathe as she was aghast when a contributor confessed he did not feel like finishing one of the recommended novels. It raises the issue not uncommon in book clubs of the [...]

August 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

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