I have previously written about the Covent Garden restaurant Joe Allen, in a food blog in November 2015. This is about another Joe Allen, as shown in ...
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There were any number of potential stories heading into the US Open which concluded at Pebble Beach on Sunday. Could Rory McIlroy, who had won in Cana...
Read MoreGOLF: Gary becomes a real player
You will doubtless have noticed that the England football team was in Portugal last week, playing and losing 3-1 to Holland and then playing and beati...
Read MoreFOOTBALL: England pay the penalty while fans make mayhem
Yes, it’s Greece again! Following on from my trip to the Peloponnese in February, this time it was a family trip to Corfu. (Or Cor-Phew, as I...
Read MoreFOREIGN: An Ionian idyll
A COMIC/SERIOUS IMMORALITY TALE FOR OUR TIMES (a fantasy if it’s your sort of scene) The story starts in London a little over two years ago, beg...
Read MoreFANTASY: Love is a Battlefield – Part 10 of 10
Rocketman is the story of Elton John (or Reg Dwight to give him his name when he was a piano-obsessed small boy in Pinner, Middlesex). If one reads ...
Read MoreFILM: Rocketman aiming high and hitting its target
Earlier this month, we did something we have only ever done once before; stayed overnight at an airport hotel. My wife had booked our BA flight to Cor...
Read MoreFLYING: The overnight stay
Dale Chihuly is styled as the “world’s most celebrated glass artist”. I have no idea how stiff the competition is for that accolade ...
Read MoreFUN: Epic glass in glass houses (and elsewhere)
You may have heard of the chef, James Cochran. He won the Great British Menu 2018, one of those food programmes on the BBC that seem to crop up as oft...
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