One thing that has frustrated me in recent years is my ignorance regarding the Kings and Queens that have reigned these isles since Anglo Saxon warlords first handed themselves such grand titles around 1500 years ago.
I must have wittered on about this quite a lot as Justine picked up on my incoherent ramblings and presented me with a book for Christmas called ‘Kings and Queens’ an original title that must have been the result of the ...
Well we are now over a week into our new home and after celebrating a successful Christmas with all four kids, we are now alone for a few days and the DIY has started with gusto if not relish.
We have decided that the first room to attack is the first one you enter through the front door, thus leading guests in to a false sense of restoration whilst the rest of the house remains the set for A 1970's sitcom.
Featuring a heavy dose of artex, ...
Well, at last we have moved into our new home in St Ives, just outside Ringwood.
Many outsiders might think that leaving Basingstoke would be an easy thing to do but actually, I have really enjoyed the 15 years I spent living there.
I will keep my links to Basingstoke as the boys are still there and I remain the chairman at the cricket club in Oakley, at least for another year or two.
It is only 35 minutes away and we plan to see the ...
For some time I have been suspicious of how English sportsman cope when they are faced with confrontation and bullying by their opponents.
I always get a feeling that, because of our imperialistic past and the old Etonian influence in cricket and rugby in particular, that we suffer from a superiority complex that acts as a driving force to our opponents.
I have seen it first hand in cricket trials in Hampshire that, unless you have ...
I would like to apologise to my adoring fan base for the distinct lack of blogs in the last week. Whilst it is impossible to feel your pain, I do sympathise your state of emptiness. The lack of blog posts has not been courtesy of being bereft of material, it is actually more to do with the misery that is being inflicted on me by estate agents.
If I was paying these people thousands of pounds to tell lies and send chauvinistic emails to my ...