Every day (so it seems) the Times ‘T2’ section offers health advice, normally, and to be honest, quite insultingly, aimed at the over-40s, over-50, over-60s or pre-dead. What’s even worse is that although I’ve skipped over those pages and filed them under the ‘health bollocks’ section, Mel reads them. Out loud. To me. Even if – Read More-
As I stepped off the plane in Tel Aviv, I felt a ‘little tickle’ in my throat. The sort of ‘just a little tickle, nothing’ which, just 3 years ago would have had me barricading myself in the spare room for at least 10 days, taking my meals from Mel at the door dressed in – Read More-
The beach road in Hertzliya is half a cliff up from the beach. So 10 years ago they put in a super lift to take the unfit, the aged, infirm, those with buggies and bikes, and the downright fucking lazy, down to beach level. But they also put a stairway in, which the superfit, like – Read More-
Well, the day that ended with Manchester City winning the most coveted thing in proper (ie European) football; the ‘treble’, started not quite as well when 5am passed and the taxi coming to whisk us to Heathrow hadn’t shown up. They normally arrive ten minutes early and you either hear them outside or get the – Read More-
I first went to Israel in July, 1976. The ‘kibbutz experience’ was by miles the cheapest way to ‘travel’, ‘stay away from home f’ra bit’ and ‘holiday’. Even though you work 6 days a week, so its not, like, Club Med, and the rooms are less ‘The Savoy’ and more ‘Stalag 14’, but that’s all – Read More-
We love a Sheikh, us football fans. Can’t get enough. Man City have got one, and you can’t get more successful than them. Newcastle have got one and look how brilliantly they’ve improved since his arrival! And now Man United might get their own. I never knew there were so many Sheikhs in the world. – Read More-
This is the answer to my dreams! And of course, it took Apple to realise precisely what I didn’t need, what I’ve never needed, never wanted, and yet make me see the rest of my life in new and different terms, dependent on their design team. Because now, I’ll be liberated from walking down the – Read More-
This is what’s now known as ‘the Harry Kane question’. Should he stay at Spurs for the lurve or move somewhere else for success. Somewhere like… Manchester United!!! You simply can’t get ‘bigger’ than that But… but… if he’s moving ‘to win things’, which all the world’s media feel he should, if nothing else, to – Read More-
What does summer mean to you? Cricket at Lords? Tennis without an umbrella? Top down on the car? Shorts’n’t-shirts? Liberation from football woes? Or ice cream? I wear shorts all year, because I’m a bit daft, play tennis in any weather and actually prefer it when its not too hot and similarly will always drive – Read More-
The government refuses to give up all its private WhatsApp messages to the inquiry into Boris’s Covid behaviour. The latest inquiry. Part 7: “The CRISIS!!!” In previous parts we’ve had partygate, Dominic-Cummings-gate and the garden gate, through which Boris goes out for his daily run. To prove every day, as he has for the past – Read More-