Last month I did something for the first time that millions have been doing for ages: I flew easyJet. I went to Nice and back from Gatwick on a four-d...
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It is approaching two months since the 2022 staging of the Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames. I have attended it on a couple of occasions, both...
Read MoreVery old-fashioned and right up to date
My last blog under the ‘Fantasy’ banner was in March, headlined ‘Heading for the Putin/Trump show again?’ No one can say that ...
Read MoreWe are all caught up in Putin’s nightmare dream
On Sunday evening England’s women’s football team, aka the Lionesses, beat Germany by 2-1 to win the European Championships and thereby re...
Read MoreIt’s come home!
You may have noticed that there is (yet again!) an election campaign underway in order to resolve who should be the leader of the Conservative Party, ...
Read MoreA fight over the public purse
On a balmy Sunday evening at St Andrews, 28-year-old Cameron Smith (pictured on the home page) was unflustered by the raucous crowds rooting for the m...
Read MoreYes Cam Do
Fallow is a period of time when nothing much gets done. As a restaurant, Fallow is a place in London’s West End in which quite a bit of dining g...
Read MoreFallow quite dear
The photo of Heathrow Terminal 5 on the home page looks, appropriately, a little like a view from a prison cage. And there seems to be no end in sight...
Read MoreDistinctly not flights of fancy
While the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations have been hogging the headlines, this past Friday and Saturday nights at the Emirates Stadium in North Lo...
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