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I never believe those couples who publicise their break up with there are no third parties involved. It’s rarely if ever the case and I wonder what the motive is. Perhaps they want to present a no-blame front to friends and family so no side is taken. I know one couple who sent out such [...]

June 26, 2015 // 0 Comments

Memory lost

In the week I was invited to Scotland Yard for a lunch and  briefing by Assistant Commisioner Mark Rowley. As it was confidential I cannto share the contents with you as Tickler would be clapped in irons and taken  to the Tower . The Commissoner had 8 points to make and with my failing memory I [...]

June 25, 2015 // 0 Comments

The New English Art Club

Yesterday I visited the New English Art Club exhibition at the Pall Mall Gallery. The New English was founded in 1885 by a group of artists working in Paris and has been an important element in English art. In its first exhibition in 1886 George Clausen, Stanhope Forbes, JS Sargent and Wilson [...]

June 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Sugar daddy, sugar baby

Last night radio 4 broadcast two programmes on relationships of a revealing nature.The first was called Sugar Daddy, Sugar Baby and was about young female students who utilise websites to find a sugar daddy to finance their studies. It was an interesting programme though I wondered if it was a [...]

June 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

1966 and all that

I have been following Bernadette’s advice and watching The Professionals every Sunday morning. Yesterday I noticed there was a programme about Bobby Charlton before it and I became engrossed by it. I believe that 1966-70 was the golden period of British post war football. During it England [...]

June 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

The U.S Open

Cricket has got so much coverage in the pages off the Rust this  past week that I am grateful that the U.S. Open gets a mention. There was much controversy in the build up about the  quality of the course at Chambers Bay, Washington, Seattle. Mike Davies, the PGA chief executive, locked horns [...]

June 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Carmen/Glyndebourne

I  have never been wholly been convinced by Glyndebourne and not being an opera buff the less well known ones elude me. It also is rather expensively corporate on the one hand, a Glastonbury for grown ups on the other. However having moved nearby and wishing to participate in cultural life I duly [...]

June 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ The Little Fish Market

The Independent in its travel section ran an interesting feature on 48 hours in Brighton. In the restaurant section they recommended The Salt Room and the Little Fish Market. I have never visited the latter so off I went with a French girlfriend last night. It’s a small restaurant in Hove [...]

June 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ivan again

It’s becoming the Ivan Conway show as yet again I’m posting. Hopefully the readers will bear with me. This time its more about Matt Prior and cycling. I saw Matt at the Players Club at Arundel  and later at at Luke Wright’s Dinner at the Old Forge Storrington. Matt was with [...]

June 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Lady from Zagreb/ Philip Kerr

This is the 20th Bernie Gunther novel. It would perhaps be harsh to call it formulaic but they have become predictable. I never criticise a popular author who makes his living from a character, plenty have done so normally in the murder mystery genre. Kerr has branched out with Scott Manson, a [...]

June 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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