Life
A toast to Provence
Friends have a house in Provence, near the foot of Mont Ventoux. Even in a region so full of charm…
High life
OK sports fans, the Games are over, Uncle Sam and Britain hit pay dirt, and the prettiest girl of the…
Low life
Next week I’m going to Ladakh for a travel gig. Me neither — never heard of it. So I heaved…
Bridge
There’s been a fair amount of moaning about the English Bridge Union’s decision to move the week-long ‘Summer Meeting’ —…
The internet of stupid things
Back in the 1980s a colleague of mine was paranoid about being burgled. Before he went away on a two-week…
The Battle for Britain
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So it St Louis
From the humble status of wild-card entry at St Louis last year, the US Grandmaster, Wesley So (formerly of the…
no. 423
Black to play. This is from Vachier-Lagrave–Anand, Sinquefield Cup, St Louis 2016. White has played to win a pawn but…
Body talk
In Competition No. 2962 you were invited to supply a poem about a body part of an author of your…
Dear Mary
Q. We have been invited to stay with a generous friend in Greece. Now we hear from other (slightly…
A toast to Provence
Friends have a house in Provence, near the foot of Mont Ventoux. Even in a region so full of charm…
High life
OK sports fans, the Games are over, Uncle Sam and Britain hit pay dirt, and the prettiest girl of the…
Long life
The 6th Duke of Westminster, who died this month, was living support of the claim that wealth doesn’t make you…
Long life
The 6th Duke of Westminster, who died this month, was living support of the claim that wealth doesn’t make you…
Low life
Next week I’m going to Ladakh for a travel gig. Me neither — never heard of it. So I heaved…
Low life
Next week I’m going to Ladakh for a travel gig. Me neither — never heard of it. So I heaved…
Pelican pie
Revisers of OED have made a pig’s ear of pelican pie, I fear. I’ve been reading for pleasure Peter Gilliver’s…
Real life
‘How did I get here?’ I think dazedly. I am sitting in the Big Yellow Self Storage in Balham being…
The yawn supremacy
The BBC has published a list of the 100 best films of the 21st century, compiled after consulting academics, cinema…
The yawn supremacy
The BBC has published a list of the 100 best films of the 21st century, compiled after consulting academics, cinema…
The internet of stupid things
Back in the 1980s a colleague of mine was paranoid about being burgled. Before he went away on a two-week…
Wild life
Kenya When the late Tom Cholmondeley walked into his cell after being accused of murder in Kenya’s Rift Valley, etched…
Bridge
There’s been a fair amount of moaning about the English Bridge Union’s decision to move the week-long ‘Summer Meeting’ —…
2274: Round and round
The perimeter squares yield six theme-words in order, though any one of them can come first. The remaining unclued lights…
Real life
Whenever I try to use the NHS I end up feeling like Bruce Willis’s character in The Sixth Sense. No…
