WHERE ARE THE GPs?
🎵 “Where have all the GPs gone? Gone to leafy suburbs every one” 🎶 (with apologies to Pete Seeger) No subject prompts more heated...
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DIM
Those who have lived or worked anywhere in Africa will recognise the problem. Slow hospitality service, inefficient transport, fickle...
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LES FROGS
On any given holiday in France – and there have been many in our family - I always ponder what the French truly think of les rosbifs, the...
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SPITFIRE
Every year during the Royal Three Counties Show in Malvern, the ears are assailed by a strangely familiar roar. Is that a…? No, surely...
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MR SURGEON
Within my circle of friends, there have been two surgeons. I say ‘have been’ because one has sadly recently died and the other is in...
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WHY THE G.O.A.T. CAN’T ACT THE GOAT
On our recent Northern tour of cricket clubs, Barry Richards, interposed between ribald reminiscences of our Hampshire days, expanded on...
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A BLUEPRINT FOR BETTER CRICKET
BARRY RICHARDS Mark Nicholas once told me that in his opinion there were five former players who thought deeply about cricket, were...
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GET MY GOAT
SIX THINGS THAT GET MY GOAT Now, that is a strange idiom, ‘to get my goat’, the origins of which I was unfamiliar. It comes from horse...
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Andy Roberts -The Silent Assassin
A recent article by Steve James, The Times cricket correspondent, about the Dinky Doos, the Stiffs, the Second XIs of county cricket,...
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