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Who will win the Open?

Every major has it’s own personality. The Masters always played at the same course is the most traditional. Given that America is only 350 years old they tend to be big on tradition. The Masters with its azaleas and dogwood, Butler’s Cabin, green jacket and Gene Sarazen’s [...]

July 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Eden Project

I’m not intuitively either a green, Eco warrior or lover of plants or shrubs so the idea of spending 4 hours in the company of these did not fill me with much enthusiasm. However on a rainy day other attractions were not at my disposal so I joined the trip to the Eden project at St Austell. [...]

July 15, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Idle Rocks, St Mawes

My readers will know how wary I am of restaurants with panoramic views. Equally that I factor into the restaurant experience greeting, comfort, service and cost as much as food. I’m pleased to report that the restaurant at the Idle Rocks scores on every count except possibly value. I first [...]

July 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

Self apartment v hotel

The pros and cons of self-catering apartments are fairly obvious. The benefits are it’s cheaper, more spacious, less tied to a hotel regime. The drawbacks are it’s less of a holiday with cooking, cleaning and washing and you’re less likely to meet people. I was disappointed on [...]

July 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

Menabilly

I’m heading up the latest National Rust artistic appreciation tour to the Menabilly estate. Although this has been owned by the Rashleigh family since the reign of Elizabeth 1 it is best known for the 20 odd years that Daphne du Maurier lived here. As a young child on a family holiday at [...]

July 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sharks win and nearly there

Last night in the T20 blast Sussex Sharks beat Glamorgan comfortably to achieve second place in the southern section. Next Friday we play fourth place Hampshire and finish with an away game at the Oval against Surrey. One win should suffice. Glamorgan posted 164, a competitive total. Once again [...]

July 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

Two Paulines In the News

My  old school St. Paul’s may not have produced 18 Prime Ministers like Eton, in fact just the one – Spencer Compton who succeeded Robert Walpole – but we have two finance ministers amongst our alumni dominating the news: George Osborne and Euclid Skalatos. The latter gave an [...]

July 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club

Last night I introduced Ken Howard the artist to the art historian Martin Gayford. Ken I have known and admired for over 30 years and Martin is well-liked and respected in our world for his art journalism and biographies of John Constable,Van Gogh and Michelangelo. Ken had written to Martin after [...]

July 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Assessing the Ashes

When the sports editor asked me for a piece to preview the Ashes my heart dropped. There has been so much hot air in the media, so much raking up of old incidents and generating new confrontation that I suspect most cricket followers like me would really like battle to commence, as it will this [...]

July 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

This medical business

My father was an esteemed doctor but, after 11 hours of daily uninterrupted practice, the last thing he wanted to treat was any illness in the family. So we all became rather stoic. We also learned a lot about the medical business. One of the uses of a good doctor is to assess whether an operation [...]

July 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

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