STORIES: LEISURE
The Emperors New Clothes
My Best Friend floated #The Edinburgh festival as an idea. I said I was keen and she booked the Air B&B. I was supposed to book [...]
Loos Fail The Sniff Test
I had lunch with a friend in an Italian place in Oxford Circus. We ate a good lunch and laughed a lot. As my friend got [...]
Game. Set & Match
Wimbledon seems to have come round remarkably soon since the last time that our screens were saturated with incomprehensible grunting and invisible action. I know there [...]
My Chainsaw Fantasy
A friend of mine called me up at 8.30 in a Sunday morning. He said that he was parked outside my house and would like to [...]
Let It Snow!
The snow this week prompted the son and I to remember a freezing February when he lent out of his bedroom window and broke stalagmites off [...]
Knock Yourself Out
It might be cold but the sky is blue and the sun is out and casting long winter shadows over the landscape. This is the weather [...]
Grand Masters
I did something rather wonderful this morning. It involved Grand Masters and there was not a golf ball in sight. Golf is a whole other story: [...]