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News At A Glance #2

Friday, April 8, 2022

On Tate McRae, Tonella McGowan, and the terror threat. — For The Emigre

Filed in Journalism, NEWS AT A GLANCE | Also tagged America, Antarctica, doctors, driving, finance, food, IBM, London, monkeys, mountains, Nelson Evening Mail, news, Northern Ireland, nutmeg, pelicans, religion, satellites, satire, Scotland, Sevastopol, Swedes, Tate McRae, terrorism, The Penguin News, Tonella McGowan, tools, wind | Comments (0)

So Goode it’s bad

Friday, December 10, 2021

Forever and a Day: a James Bond novel by Anthony Horowitz (Random House Audiobooks, read by Matthew Goode, 7hrs 36mins) . Around the final Daniel Craig installment, there’s been inevitable talk of who should be the next James Bond. Well, I’ll tell you who it shouldn’t be, and that’s Matthew Goode. Three years ago, Anthony […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Anthony Horowitz, audiobooks, Britain, cars, CIA, Corsica, fiction, food, French, German, Ian Fleming, James Bond, languages, Matthew Goode, McDonald's, MI6, Norway, Radio 3, Random House, Russians, Scots, women, WW2 | 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, […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged beer, Bluffer's Guides, Boris Starling, Brexit, cats, conversation, cricket, cycling, Duckworth Lewis, Englishmen, etiquette, fishing, footnotes, Fuller Pilch, girlfriends, golf, Harry Eyres, Haynes Publishing, humour, James Trollope, Jonathan Goodall, Keith Hann, leadership, management, Marcus Berkmann, Mike Brearley, Nick Yapp, opera, Rain Men, Samuel Johnson, Serbo-Croat, social media, South Africans, Susie Boniface, Test Match Special, The Oldie, Town Malling, William Hanson, wisdom | Comments (0)

Poetry

Thursday, January 19, 2012

emboldens the life that is already there like a glass of red wine but also sometimes like the hangover the morning after.

Filed in Poetry | Also tagged Poetry | Comments (0)

L’elisir d’amore

Monday, January 17, 2011

To celebrate her going on the pill we uncorked a good bottle of wine. Afterwards, I couldn’t get it up.

Filed in Fictions | Also tagged love, micro-fiction, pill, sex | Comments (0)