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WIMBLEDON
My mother was a tennis enthusiast and a sun-lover, but not necessarily in that order. “Which way do these seats face?” she asked the...


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FAST BOWLERS and injuries
Oh, my Trueman and my Statham of long ago (who never seemed to get injured) Currently, there are eight England pace bowlers on the...


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LONDON
“When a man tires of London, he is tired of life.” Samuel Johnson I was never sure about that oft-quoted comment by Dr Johnson. He wasn’t...


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A UKRAINE MISSION
“It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done.” Sydney Carton (A Tale Of Two Cities) In Dickens’s tale of London and...


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DEPRESSION
A personal account It came as a bolt out of a clear, blue sky. It did not creep up on me, nudging me with increasing urgency so that I...


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ST ANTON 2022
It’s been a while since I have been ski-ing. More than ten years in fact. Would a 73-year old man be as fit - for ski-ing, at any rate -...


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A SOUTH COAST FUNERAL
James Bell No son should predecease his parents. No boy should predecease his housemaster. It all feels out of kilter. But of course it...


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POWER CORRUPTS
We all know who’s turning the tap on and off for the drip, drip, drip of the ‘Partygate’ scandal. It comes as no surprise to any of us...


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SIXES
Here’s an interesting fact. In the recent Test match in Sydney, no fewer than 13 sixes were struck. Go back 60 years to the equivalent...
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