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Thursday, April 21, 2022

The second (Stanley) instalment of my exchange of Falklands War/1982 letters with Dominic Hilton in Argentina. — For The Critic

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The One That Got Away – Jonathan and Ryan Wijayaratne

Sunday, September 20, 2020

The fourth-generation Colombo photographers talk about the greatest shot they never got… and one they did. — For the Sri Lankan Sunday Times

Filed in column, interview, Journalism | Also tagged acting, art, Australia, Colombo, cooking, Danu Innasithamby, education, family, fashion, fish, Havelock, hotels, Jonathan Wijayaratne, Jonathans Studio, Miss Sri Lanka, Miss Universe, Mount Lavinia, New York, photography, Ryan Wijayaratne, Sri Lanka, Sunday Times (SL), swimwear, tattoos, the UK, video, work, You're My Favourite | Comments (0)

Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy Bluffer’s Guide

Monday, June 4, 2018

Last weekend I played host to a particularly friendly cricket match – by which I mean that both teams had no clue what they were doing. The opposition, Rain Men, were captained by my friend and usual team-mate Simon, whose excuse was that he’d only played the game 263 times previously. The other captain was, […]

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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, April 23, 2018

. We call our day 24 hours, but it is really 23 hours 56 minutes 5 seconds. — The Nelson Evening Mail, September 28 1906 . ‘Facetious’ is the shortest word in the English language including all the vowels in alphabetical order. The English theatre loves the joker. Samuel Beckett notched up 35 runs in first-class cricket. UK funeral directors are […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged America, anatomy, baking, californium, comedy, cricket, death, education, English, funeral directors, gun violence, JR Ewing, mackerel, men, money, murder, music, Nelson Evening Mail, republicanism, Ross Brown, Samuel Beckett, singing, the pentatonic scale, the UK, theatre, time, torture, Uzbekistan, vowels, weather, work | Comments (0)

NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, October 2, 2017

. Few of those who know and admire the camellia, that waxlike and pure flower, are aware that the parent plant, the origin of the million plants scattered throughout Europe, is still alive and is in Italy. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 22 1907 . The Taliban now control more territory in Afghanistan than they did […]

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NEWS AT A GLANCE

Monday, February 20, 2017

. In many parts of Africa gin is the only currency. — The Nelson Evening Mail, January 6 1909 . James Ramsay MacDonald became Prime Minister of Great Britain three times. Water is a better conductor of sound than air. A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the […]

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged acting, Africa, agriculture, books, Britain, crime, drink, geography, horses, ice hockey, law, Led Zeppelin, Liechtenstein, liquorice, Paul Auster, physics, poets, political correctness, politics, Ramsay MacDonald, Ravel, Socrates, Teletubbies, the Swiss, unicorns, virgins, waste management | Comments (0)

A complete list of all those who have gone fishing, according to Benjamin Britten

Sunday, February 5, 2017

1) Old Joe 2) Young Joe 3) You Know

Filed in Non-fictions | Also tagged Benjamin Britten, micro-non-fiction, Montagu Slater, opera, The Pikey Laureate | Comments (0)