Yesterday saw the start of cricket’s 2022 County Championship season. As you may be aware, the England Test team have been having a rough time o...
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Since it’s taken hold in almost every aspect of our lives, I guess it is no shock at all that Amazon has now got into fashion. Judging by the ph...
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At the Emirates Stadium in North London on Wednesday night (see photo on the home page), Arsenal, lying fourth in the Premier League, hosted Liverpool...
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Fantasies are not necessarily about good things. Dystopian fantasy is apparently a popular genre of science fiction. In Ukraine right now, the world i...
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The Oscars are coming (on March 27, to be precise) which means we must prepare ourselves for a glut of stories about Olivia Colman. There seems to be ...
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Dick Francis published his first novel in 1962. It was called Dead Cert and its background reflected a livelihood its author knew so well. Horse racin...
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You will know what hundreds and thousands are; those tiny multi-coloured sweets used to decorate cakes and ice cream, vanilla in particular. We are ta...
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A few years ago we went on a family holiday to Cancun in Mexico. We had a fabulous time, not least enjoying a few rounds of golf. It was the one and o...
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At the tail end of last year, a then 60-year old Englishman endured the worst weather the north coast of Spain had suffered for 30 years in order to p...
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