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Not too many Viola fans are filled with optimism for his season. We have bought in the Columbian Claudio Sanchez as an enforcer and Maxi Oliveira an Uruguayan left back from Penarol. The biggest transfer however has been in the opposite direction: Alonso for 25m euros to Chelsea. This is an [...]

September 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Lunch at Sussex

Yesterday I returned for the second day of Sussex v Kent and lunch at which Martin Corry spoke for the Wooden Spoon charity. Any notion of a dodgy wicket was dispelled by Kent amassing 496 in which virtually all the lower order contributed. Sussex closed at 42-2 trailing Kent by 274 runs. The game [...]

September 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Kent

Yesterday I went to Sussex v Kent at Hove with an old friend of mine, a barrister who is deeply knowledgeable on cricket. It is a game that Sussex must win if we are to catch Essex for the only promotion berth but the slim chances were made even more unlikely by the absence of Luke Wright, Ed Joyce [...]

September 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

Funeral for a friend’ s mother

Yesterday I went to the cremation and reception afterwards of the mother of a close friend of mine. I doubt if  I met her 10 times in her life, never visited her home, nor her mine but  that was not the point . It was the correct thing to do to pay my last respects and to be there for my friend. [...]

August 31, 2016 // 0 Comments

Chess: macro and micro

The news that the organiser of the schools chess competition, Mike Basman, is the subject of a bankruptcy demand from HMRC is of serious  concern. HMRC are pursuing him for the VAT on the subs that schools play to allow their pupils to compete. Technically though absurdly the HMRC are correct as [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Golf: tourneys and final Ryder Cup selection

Tom Pieters won his 3rd European event Made In Denmark to enhance his chances of wild card selection to the European team which Darren Clarke will announce tomorrow. The automatics are Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stensen, Justin Rose, Sergio Garcia, Rafa Cabrera Bello, Andy Sullivan, Matt Fitzpatrick, [...]

August 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Christopher Wood

Before going to  the Chichester Festival Theatre to see Half a Sixpence we visited the Pallant Gallery to view the Christopher Wood exhibition. Wood is an artist whose life is more interesting than his work. Born in 1901 in Knowsley he went to Marlborough School where he sustained a blood [...]

August 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Half a Sixpence

Having suffered through No Man’s Land it was an unadulterated pleasure to visit  the Chichester Festival Theatre for Half A Sixpence. I remember the impact that musical and film with Tommy Steele had on me for the perception of the cruelty of the upper class provincial snob. The story as [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The i360 Watchtower

Brighton is never a city to sit on its laurels or its backside. The electric railway of Magnus Volk, still running from the pier to the Marina, is the oldest such railway in the world; it is the only coastal city with its own Palace the  Royal Pavilion. It has the quaint Lanes full of antiques [...]

August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

No Mans Land

There is a considerable body of theatrical opinion that holds that Harold Pinter is Britain’s greatest living playwright and another less vocal one that cannot fathom his works. I belong to the second school. Last night I saw No Man’s Land at the Theatre Royal  Brighton. I was more [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

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