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Why Preach to the Converted?

When I was doing my epic chairman's speech at the cricket club on Saturday, I found myself explaining the physical and financial demands of running an amateur sports club to people who already knew them, because the people who turn up to such functions are the ones that keep the whole show on the road. With a lot of effort over the last few years, our numbers have ...

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The Summer 2016 – How Did it Fair?

When I speak to people about the summer that has just passed by, I get conflicting stories; some say it was a nice summer, others say it was crap, which just goes to show how our memory works. Weekend cricketers for instance, base their summer memories on how many games of cricket they have played and how many have been cancelled, but this no real gauge of how a ...

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A Holiday in Sorrento, Italy

Well, I have to say that my holiday to Italy was an excellent one and preferable to other great holidays I have had in Europe for a number of reasons. However, on the downside, Italy, courtesy of a perfect storm of being traditionally expensive and the post Brexit collapse of the pound, is not cheap, with a meal for two and a bottle of wine often racing past the ...

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Italian Earthquake Means More Bad PR for God!

"Are you still going to go to Italy?" someone said to me yesterday, reflecting on the devastating earthquake in Central Italy on Wednesday. It would be madness to cancel a holiday on the basis of an earthquake several hundred miles away from where we are heading (Sorrento) but as the tragedy unfolded, it soon became clear that this was yet another disaster in ...

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David Brent – Life on the Road

I went out with both my boys (or young men) for the first time in ages tonight to watch David Brent-Life on the Road, the follow up to Slough's alter-ego David Brent, who was last seen in The Office, some 13 years ago. Ricky Gervais has had ups and downs since The Office, with a few ordinary films amongst some excellent TV productions such as 'Extras' and the ...

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