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One good turn deserves another

A good friend of mine who, even in his eighties, has never stopped working is now presenting his own show on the radio network Boom which concentrates on Sixties music and the disc jockeys are from that era. My friend “ Diddy” David Hamilton worked on Radio 1 and Radio 2. Others, like Graham [...]

May 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

Let there be light

Yesterday was a nondescript sort of day with nothing special planned. Then at 10-00am all power terminated in my home. I am familiar with the tripping of the keyboard and assumed that all would and could be corrected. Not so. So I next called up an electrician who walked me through it. At 5-00pm [...]

May 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

Poltics and sport

This morning my subject du jour is “Sport and politics don’t mix – discuss”. Like all juicy issues, this one has a number of thorny complications and I intend to begin with the most basic because – my hunch is –  a consensus may not be as hard to establish upon it as some might [...]

May 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Quins factor

It barely becomes anyone, still less me, to strike a bum note after watching the Harlequins execute yet another of their now routine “coming back from being all but dead and buried on the scoreboard only to snatch victory at the death with another of their harum-scarum all-out attacking blitz” [...]

May 22, 2022 // 0 Comments

One size does not suit all.

Watching John Daly tee off to launch the PGA dressed in psychedelic trousers with a logo of skulls and an overhanging gut, flowing blonde hair and beard, I was reminded of a cross between  a superannuated surfer and a wizard in Lord of the Rings. Yet at 54 the 1991 winner at Crooked Stick still [...]

May 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

Das Boot/third series

Last night Sky Atlantic began the third series of Das Boot. Originally an outstanding film which was hailed as one of the best films on World War Two in one recent poll, it then morphed into a tv series. It posed a problem on how sympathetically you dramatise a Nazi naval success that halted many [...]

May 16, 2022 // 0 Comments

The delights of Rottingdean

Whilst I – we – were all so delighted to be travelling abroad again one must not forget the delights Great Britain has to offer. Yesterday I had cause to visit Rottingdean, only a couple of miles from my home. It suffers from too much traffic travelling from the A27 to the coastal road [...]

May 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

The Blue Angel (1930)

The Blue Angel ignited the film career of Marlene Dietrich, then aged 28, and her film career going nowhere. Just another struggling Berlin actress. Fortunately for her director Josef von Sternberg cast her in The Blue Angel a cooperation that was to make six films for Paramount and lift her to [...]

May 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

Sussex v Middlesex (second day)

Ivan Conway kindly invited me to the second day at Hove because of my Middlesex allegiances. Stumps were drawn with Middlesex trailing by 108 runs with 6 wickets down. As Shaheen Afredi was so effective from the Cromwell Road End down the slope, so was Ollie Robinson, taking 3 wickets. Anderson and [...]

May 7, 2022 // 0 Comments

A pleasant day at Hove County Ground

The sun shone for most of the first day which ended with Sussex in pole position over Middlesex on 354-6. It might have been more but doughty Ali Orr, who looks more of a Ken Barrington than a David Gower, was tragically out for 99 in the last ball before tea. Chet Pujara, who had banked 531 runs [...]

May 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

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