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Sussex CCC v Gloucestershire / day night game

Yesterday I went to the first day of the Championship match between Sussex and Gloucestershire – all of the 4 day cricket games began at 2pm and played with a pink ball. No one knew quite what to expect especially in the final hour or so when play was under the floodlights. When I had my [...]

June 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting week

I totally agree wiht Tom Hollingsworth that in calling the first Test between the British Lions and the All Blacks the so called experts got it spectacularly wrong. Of the 10 experts consulted in the Telegraph special supplement , Sir Ian McGeechan, Brian Moore and rugby correspondent Mick Cleary [...]

June 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

Chess matters

Very few chess players are household names, perhaps only Bobby Fischer and Gary Kasparov in my time. In terms of records as he was world champion for 20 years, Kasparov might be regarded as the greater player but Fischer, odd that he indubitably was, broke the hegemony of Soviet chess. Kasparov is [...]

June 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Marrocco

I have often complained that the British gastronomic tradition lacks the concept of the “restaurant du quarter” (neighbourhood restaurant) unlike France. So in this regard I am delighted to recommend Marrocco on the esplanade at Hove. Old man Renato Marrocco came to England in 1962. [...]

June 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Brothers in law (1957)

Contrary to reputation I do not just admire French cinema. I also love many British films from the forties to the sixties. This period of film making produced such gems as The Third Man, I’m all Right Jack, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Zulu, Lawrence of Arabia, Alfie, The Italian Job and Get [...]

June 22, 2017 // 0 Comments

Missing the great presenters

Watching a lot of sport over the weekend I not only missed the great commentators individual to their sport – Bill Maclaren, Richie Benaud, Henry Longhurst – but the legendary presenters too. Titans like David Coleman was editor of his local Stockport newspaper aged 23 and his [...]

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Southwold: an Earthly Paradise

For many years my second husband Laurie and I had a second home in Southwold. He is an a illustrator and taught in evening classes in Roehampton College. There a Polish student with blue eyes, glossy hair and full young breasts, none of which I possess, seduced him and our marriage broke up. We [...]

June 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Summer wine and its marketing

In our wine business I had responsibility for marketing which took various forms: the wine estates and sometimes even the region would do their marketing, we were conscious of our own image as a prestigious St James wine merchant specialsing in vintage Clarets and Port but the aspect I found most [...]

June 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Cricket at Arundel

There can be few better places to be on perfect summer’s day than Arundel Castle to watch cricket. Somerset Maugham said that as we have so few of them it’s only right that an English summer’s day should be better than anyone else’s or some such words. I had invited a local [...]

June 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

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