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Oh what bad luck

Almost every gambler I have met blames his bad luck: what has he done to deserve this(?) is a frequent cri de coeur. Conveniently they forget when Lady Luck is on their side as happened to me last weekend. Late goals in the Milan derby and Manchester United v Arsenal game provided a result when all [...]

November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report; Fulham 1 Sheffield Wednesday 1

For the third weekend Fulham emulated the Brighten result – and the performance was not much different. After two inspiring wins over Huddersfield and Brentford, once again our home form was unreliable and Sheffield Wednesday deserved their draw. They came with a plan to frustrate Fulham by [...]

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Brighton 1 Aston Villa 1

Brighton were not exactly outclassed by the resurgent Villa side unbeaten since the appointment of Steve Bruce but we were grateful to come away with a point. From the start Villa harried and pressed the Seagulls. Villa took the lead from a glancing header from Nathan Baker which David Stockdale [...]

November 19, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hartsbourne

I have always been fascinated by great houses. It’s not so much the architecture and grounds but those that lived and stayed in them. Melanie Gay, knowing that I always want to learn more about places I have visited or intend to, recommended me a book called the Riviera Set by Mary Lovell. I [...]

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Making of World at War

As one of my colleagues on the Rust worked at Thames shortly after the series was made I write these words with some trepidation and indeed asked him to cast his eye on them before they are published. Last night I watched the final dvd disc on the making of World at War in which the staple force [...]

November 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Trinity Six/Charles Cumming

I am becoming a fan of espionage writer Charles Cumming having read and reviewed  favourably The Colder War.  Previous novels feature his hero Thomas Kell a wizard of detection through computer hacking and mobile surveillance and the French head of MI6 Amelie. The Trinity Six goes back in time to [...]

November 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Stanmer House

Stanmer House is described as Brighton’s best kept secret. It’s a country house set in large park adjacent to the main university campus at Falmer opposite the Amex stadium on the A27. Normally when you visit any park you are first confronted by a whole raft of prohibitions: ‘No [...]

November 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Rebecca Notebook and other memories /Daphne du Maurier

The Rebecca Notebook is an account of how Daphne du Maurier wrote her most famous novel and a series of reflections on her life late in her life. Rebecca, like most of her novels, has a pleasing structure as the story unfurls. Few can tell a story as well as Daphne du Maurier which accounts for [...]

November 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

Marseille

I  have yet to maximise the potential of Netflix as I am put off by any American movie mogul company. However after catching the excellent US Presidency documentary which I reviewed I decided to investigate further. I was talking about Gerard Depardieu to a French friend  of mine and she [...]

November 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Boys In the Band

I can remember when  the film The Boys In The Band was released in 1970 after the play had a successful run of 1000 performances in New York. My father liked it as an interesting depiction of diverse gays – my parents were always tolerant of homosexuals which was unusual for middle class [...]

November 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

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