25 Good Things
Great music, played with passion and flair. Really good cheese. A sunny place with flowers and trees and birds and …
Friendship, cricket, and fallow deer
He was my friend, his name was Peter, and, some years ago now, he died. We’d played cricket together for …
The budderflaahs of Wmpltn
There was a moment, during the tennis match between Kevin Anderson and John Isner on Friday, when I feared it …
Watch The Football! Watch it! It’s Gonna Move!
It used to mean so much. I have shed tears over sport. Tears of joy, tears of frustration, and yes, …
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Slog™
Amidst the hullabaloo surrounding the impending 150th Slog™ Globe-O-Champ, it’s easy to forget that there was a time when the …
Minigolf – the great leveller
Hole No. 1 The one with the concrete lion in the middle so you aim to the left but your …
Practically perfect in every way
Perfection is subjective. This thought occurred to me at about 9.21 on Friday evening. We were at the National Theatre’s …
Define ‘interesting’
It’s the most harmless of questions. Or so you’d think. ‘Seen anything interesting?’ I’ve clocked him a mile off. It’s …
First take your Sangakkara
The week has passed Septemberily, arguing fiercely with itself about whether it should turn the heating on. Yes, it’s autumn, …
Go Mo! Oh no.
The week has passed athletically, for athletes at least. Winners won, losers lost, and no matter how much a nation …