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Sport- the great leveller

Yesterday I had two morning visitors both by coincidence called Phil. The first Phil owns a glass company and – like me – is a member of the Sussex CCC players club whose does very nicely thank you when a lusty-hitting batter smashes a glass window or door as happens not infrequently. [...]

February 24, 2022 // 0 Comments

Prague Fatale (Philip Kerr) and Berlin Nightfall (Jack Grimwood)

It is the best testimony to the writing of Philip Kerr that after reading a few chapters of Prague Fatale I realised I have already read it. I was sufficiently engaged and engrossed to continue to its end. It’s set in the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia when Reinhard Heydrich, the ruthless [...]

February 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Bamber Gascoigne

I met Bamber Gascoigne twice in my life: the first was when I was first reserve of our Magdalene College University Challenge team. Gascoigne had attended  the same college and spoke to us after an ignominious defeat by Hertford Oxford. He was a courteous  man and a clever one too as he composed [...]

February 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

My golfing weekend

The Genesis at the Riviera  Course Los Angeles was won by the young Chilean Joaquin Niemann by two strokes from Collin Morikawa. Niemann, like the Mexican Abraham Ancer, reflects the youthful upsurge in Central and South American golf. He impressively hung onto his lead for 4 days. I was on Victor [...]

February 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Whatever happened to “customer service”?

One of the banes of modern life has been the deterioration in customer service that that has bedevilled the United Kingdom over the last three decades. I don’t know who or what deserves to field most of the blame for this – sub-contracted call centres situated in all four corners of the Earth, [...]

February 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 1 Huddersfield 2

Is there cause for concern after Fulham’s third defeat at home? I read a post in one of the more incisive Fulham websites [www.hammy.com] that in 1982-83 season we had a 6 point lead over Leicester at this stage of the season but it was the Foxes who gained promotion. Huddersfield came to the [...]

February 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Godfather (Part Three)

Yesterday, as Storm Eunice made going out so dangerous, I stayed in and – seeking a film to watch – chanced upon The Godfather Part Three. It’s reckoned to be the weakest of the trilogy. Whereas the original Godfather spawned a litany of mafia films and series – notably [...]

February 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Storm Eunice passes through

Living – as I now do – some distance away from any metropolis that matters one has to get used to the complicating factors that come with the territory – both literal and metaphorical. There exists a degree of “community feel” in the locality. Somebody began a WhatsApp group at the [...]

February 19, 2022 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on the Champions League

The most significant aspect of the round of 16 of the Champions League partially played out this week was the dominance of the English teams – Manchester City winning 5-0 at Sporting Lisbon and Liverpool 2-0 at Inter. Barcelona, after 17 consecutive seasons in the Champions League, played [...]

February 18, 2022 // 0 Comments

Art & Crime/Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm

Art & Crime is an account of looters, forgers, and fraudsters in the art world by two German journalists. They concentrate on Germany, though a small player in the art market. In 2018 the global art market was valued at $67 billion of which Germany only represented 1%. The book begins with the [...]

February 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

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