One is regularly reading about how tough it is for restaurants in the present financial climate, what with increased costs for the proprietors and the...

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A singular set-up

I went to see the new Paddington film this week. Informally it’s called Paddington 3 but in fact its title is Paddington in Peru. And financiall...

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Paddington in clover

Sicily is separated from mainland Italy by a narrow stretch of water called the Straits of Messina. Plans are intermittently advanced about spanning t...

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The football of Italy

It seems a long time ago that we were in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic (OK, it started in March 2020) and a time when we thought we might neve...

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A growth causing some grief

As one might expect, this year having seen the European Championships played in Germany, there has not been a shortage of books about football publish...

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Only in it for the money?

Nobody could deny that Billy Horschel was a worthy winner of the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday. Any guy who finishes the final day birdie-birdie-bird...

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PGA & LIV: farewell to ’24

I chose this book for my fiction blog this time around largely because of a serendipitous piece of timing. I started reading it shortly before a trip ...

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Very fine and very French