For many people the month of September involves a wave of depression as summer draws to a close and it was incredibly poignant this morning when I dropped my lads to school and college, the first significant rain for some time accompanied a 10 degrees temperature drop.
I have spoken to many people over the last week who are suffering the first signs of S.A.D as the memories of their holidays with their children in the Mediterranean and ...
We Brits are a funny old bunch when it comes to the weather. After five successive summer wash-outs that have wrecked fetes, barbecues and sporting events, the last few weeks have offered a long awaited prolonged spell of decent weather and as a result, the first murmurings of dissent are upon us.
When you go to the weather websites, they are littered with grave hay fever and heat wave warnings. It seems as if though all this heat is ...
Nearly every conversation that I have been involved in since February has started with a two way discussion about how bloody cold it is; it is something that is near on impossible to avoid. It almost feels like we are relishing in the misery of the weather being one of the few things we can do absolutely nothing to change. Watching the forecast is like watching Groundhog Day, with constant reminders about the stubborn easterly wind drawing in ...
I ventured out for my first game of tennis this ‘spring’ at lunchtime today. To say that it was a pleasurable occasion would be over-egging the experience just a tad as three things immediately sprung to my attention.
My backhand has reached such a comical level that if I demonstrated it on a live stand up show; the aisles would be rocking with laughter. The turgid forward defensive shot that I have adapted at cricket has now become such ...
For Chairmen of Premier League football clubs, Saturdays are all about hobnobbing, drinking champagne and a perennial search for elevated social status. Football clubs are the acceptable place to be if you Arab or a Russian who has fleeced the mineral wealth of his own nation and sees the relative safety of the UK as the ideal bolthole.
There are few complaints either, football fans get gifted with world stars gracing their turf, property ...