Life
Long life
I was wondering what to write about this week when I suddenly realised that exactly 40 years ago this Saturday…
Long life
I was wondering what to write about this week when I suddenly realised that exactly 40 years ago this Saturday…
Low life
After Trev had mugged the mugger in the toilet we moved quickly on to another club. The Double O is…
Low life
After Trev had mugged the mugger in the toilet we moved quickly on to another club. The Double O is…
I love it that you…
I had never heard the Country (Red Dirt) singer Wade Bowen before, although his latest album Hold my Beer (Vol 1)…
Real life
‘No, I do not do WhatsApp.’ That’s pretty much all I ever seem to say to people nowadays. They ask…
Trouble withthe neighbours
A few years ago, I got a bit fed up with receiving Christmas cards from my friends designed to show…
Trouble withthe neighbours
A few years ago, I got a bit fed up with receiving Christmas cards from my friends designed to show…
Let’s pay for the BBC content we use
What follows is a proposal for reducing the BBC licence fee and improving the corporation’s output while saving the British…
High life
I think back to my Greek childhood and longing for the once cosiest and most romantic of cities overwhelms me.…
Low life
‘I’ve lost my phone,’ yells Trev. We’re in a club. He’s come charging on to the dance floor to tell…
Real life
‘Cydney, we are not moving to Cobham!’ I told the spaniel in my best outraged Margot Leadbetter voice. What a…
Long life
The smart phone is a wonderful thing. We are never out of touch anymore, neither with friends nor with the…
Easy does it
For all their formidable physical presence, racehorses spook easily. A sudden gust of wind flapping a plastic sack, a page…
Bridge
Moving house is traumatic but moving bridge club is worse. Young Chelsea left Barkston Gardens, its home for over 30…
Arachnid
Sadly, Michael Adams, for many years Britain’s leading grandmaster, will not be playing in the British Championship, which starts next…
No. 371
Black to play. This is from Williams-Hawkins, -British Championship 2014. How can Black finish off his attack with a fine…
Tube lines
In Competition No. 2907 you were invited to imagine that poets, living or dead, had been recruited to compose verse…
2221: Shielded
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore two accents. Across 1 Transfers…
To 2218: Fab!
The unclued lights are all preceded by GREAT to form the phrases that can be confirmed in Brewer. (The clue…
Why I voted for Jeremy Corbyn
Is the ‘Tories for Corbyn’ campaign politics at its most infantile? As one of the few conservative commentators willing to…
Battle for Britain
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Australia’s comeback kids
I have never met an Aussie I didn’t like, but, crikey, their sporting indefatigability is exhausting. Don’t they ever give…
Your problems solved
Q. Travelling on a train recently I happened to notice two former acquaintances, sitting together and very nearly opposite me,…
Trattoria tour
The Gatto Nero — or ‘Black Cat’ — is in Burano, a tiny island in the Venetian lagoon. It is…
