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The New English Art Club

The New English Art Club (“NEAC”) was founded in 1896 when the big beasts of British art John Singer Sargent, Philip Wilson Steer and Walter Sickert influenced by stays in Paris formed this club. For many years it was a stepping stone to the more illustrious Royal Academy. It now stands [...]

June 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

India thrash South Africa in Champions Trophy

Yesterday I went to the Oval in the one and only ICC Trophy natch I will be watching as spectator. I am very much in the tv camp when it comes to big cricket matches and this match experience did not alter my view. Firstly, there is travel. It should be a simple journey from the coast to Clapham [...]

June 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

La Belle Noiseuse

Some reviewers have said this Jacques Rivette film is like watching paint dry which is not perhaps intended to be uncomplimentary as it’s a film about an ageing artist Fernhoffer (Michel Piccoli) who has lost his creative urge but rediscovers this when Marianne (Emmanuelle Beart) poses for [...]

June 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

The Longest Day

This will day that will long in the memory, not least for the exit poll when I finally “hit the hay” at 10.00pm. My first appointment was to see my ophthalmic surgeon and hopefully see him afterwards for a minor procedure to remove a membrane from my left eye. I assured my p/a the ever [...]

June 9, 2017 // 0 Comments

Eric Gill/ Ditchling Museum

If this exhibition is anything to go by, museums and exhibitions will soon be carrying a government sexual warning. As I queued to enter the lady on the desk explained to the elderly couple in front of me that there were exhibits of a sexually explicit nature and the notoriety of Eric Gill. For [...]

June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments

Sussex wine

I was honoured to be asked to contribute to the National Rust on wine. I have known the redoubtable Daphne Colthard for years and no one can pick apart a restaurant wine menu better than Daffers. However she freely admits that wine for drinking and for investment is not her Prada bag. I thought [...]

June 6, 2017 // 0 Comments

My sporting weekend

There are many fine European golfers in the up and coming generation and two did well over the weekend. Renato Paratore aged 20 won the Nordea Masters whilst Matt Fitzpatrick who won the tourney last year finished a respectable second. Alexandre Levy of France recently won a tournament too. It was [...]

June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / Pike and Pine

Chef Matt Gillan earned his stripes at the Pass, South Lodge Hotel near Horsham and deservedly so. The food on his grazing menu was spectacular, my only criticism that you had to perch on stools. He has now opened the Pike and Pine in Brighton. Curiously by day it is the Redcoaster Cafe. Brighton [...]

June 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

International cross cultural relationships – do they ever work?

In the week I had a drink with a Thai lady of my acquaintance. Although she did not know this it was in the context of various discussions and debates I have had with Bob Tickler, his p/a Polly and her best friend Grania over men who take Thai brides. Bob took the view that Thai women were neither [...]

June 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Prussian Blue/ Philip Kerr

I have written before on my admiration of Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther novels. The first three The March Violets were well received but writer and publisher would scarcely have predicted he would go on to write another 14. After all a detective novel set in Nazi Germany is not the stuff of [...]

June 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

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