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Sussex crowned champions

Sussex had to score 250 runs yesterday – only the second day of four – against third-placed Middlesex. James Coles They did so – when play was possible – to achieve the bonus point needed for promotion as Champions, thanks to centuries from both John Simpson (my player of [...]

September 30, 2024 // 0 Comments

A visit to Hever Castle

Yesterday my wife and I happened to be in the area of Edenbridge in Kent with a couple of hours to spare and decided to indulge ourselves with a “brush with history” by visiting Hever Castle, the ancestral home of the Boleyn family and, of course, famously Anne Boleyn, King Henry [...]

September 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fake or Fortune (new series BBC 1)

Fake or Fortune is back on our screens and last night I watched a rather disappointing episode in a series I both enjoy and admire. The subject painting was a depiction of a white chrysanthemum by the celebrated Dutch abstractionist Piet Mondrian. Most artists have painted flowers and – [...]

September 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/The Pig on South Downs

I have visited this restaurant several times and yesterday went there with an old friend in the advertising industry who knows his food and wine. From the moment we arrived at the attractive hotel in Madehurst near Chichester he was impressed. There was a mix up with the booking dates (my fault!!!) [...]

September 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

The state of Rugby Union in England

It is a well-known fact that the sport of Rugby Union across the board is in plenty of financial and other trouble at the moment. There is talk of making it a “summer sport” in the UK – and even the floating of the idea of it trying to create a merger with Rugby League in order to [...]

September 26, 2024 // 0 Comments

Cricketing national identities

Reading articulate and well-informed books on post-War Caribbean cricket led me to the scarcely original theory that cricket is not played in that many countries but each has an identity  and style of its own. The West Indies dominated cricket for 20 years under Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards but no [...]

September 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

Grace/ITV 1

I do enjoy a TV drama of a Sunday evening and therefore appreciate Grace as it’s shot on location in my native city of Brighton. Grave is is the creation of Peter James. He has a close relationship with the Brighton Police who take him out in their patrol cars. Superintendent Roy Grace (played [...]

September 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 3 Newcastle 1

Newcastle came to Craven Cottage unbeaten with the aspiration that that their third successive defeat of Fulham away in the Premiership would take them top. Conversely, Fulham had a poor week as we were unlucky just to draw with West Ham and lost in a  marathon penalty shoot out (16-15) to Preston [...]

September 22, 2024 // 0 Comments

Fiddler on the Roof/Open Air Theatre (Regent’s Park)

Fiddler on the Roof is a wonderful musical of catchy songs, humour and two engaging themes of displacement and tradition confronting change. This performance does it justice. American actor Adam Dannheiszer is well cast as the philosophical Tevye the milkman clinging to his traditional [...]

September 20, 2024 // 0 Comments

Cineworld

The heading above should have been Lee as I intended to see that film on its release date at the 5-00pm performance. However, on arrival at my local Cineworld, I was informed the projector had broken down and I had to go to another performance. It reminded me of the story about a reviewer who [...]

September 14, 2024 // 0 Comments

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