Travel, Theatre, Music, Cricket, Tennis, Writing, Life
I was reminded of this song when we gathered for an Ivan Shakespeare Memorial Dinner on 2 March 2017. Ultimate Love and Happy Tories, Ivan Shakespeare Memorial Dinner, Café Rouge Holborn, 3 March 2017 Mark Keagan was there and it naturally came up in discussion that his father-in-law, David Waddington, passed away last week. I … Continue reading “Happy Tories, NewsRevue Lyric, 26 April 1992”
My log says that this play/production was superb and I certainly remember it as so. The play is one of Fugard’s earliest – a two-hander about a brother and sister in the Eastern Cape; somewhat down-at-heel Afrikaners. Here is a link to a Jhu article about this lesser-known Fugard play. This might have been my … Continue reading “Hello And Goodbye by Athol Fugard, Almeida Theatre, 6 September 1988”
Artwork grabbed from Canal Cafe Website for identification/link purposes and because I know that Emma won’t mind NewsRevue has been running for ever. OK, not quite for ever, but since 1979. It is the world’s longest running live comedy show, as affirmed by a Guinness World Record. Some people describe it as “The Mousetrap of … Continue reading “NewsRevue, Canal Cafe Theatre, 6 July 2023”
Blame Rohan Candappa. Actually this was a very good idea. The face-to-face “40 years on” reunion had to be cancelled this summer, so Rohan figured we should have a “40 years on” virtual reunion through the good offices of Zoom instead. Of course, back in the day, nobody used the phrase “back in the day”… … Continue reading “A Virtual Gathering Of People Who Left Alleyn’s School In 1980, 12 November 2020”
I am no stranger personally to breaking Guinness World Records, as explained and illustrated in the following piece… Ultimate Love and Happy Tories, Ivan Shakespeare Memorial Dinner, Café Rouge Holborn, 3 March 2017 …and (perhaps less plausibly) I did claim another world record as a child, along with Paul Deacon, recorded for all posterity in … Continue reading “Another Day, Another Guinness World Record Broken, Goodenough College, 8 October 2018”
The plan was to show James Pitcher around the pavilion late afternoon, possibly having met up with Edwardian (one of King Cricket‘s correspondents) earlier. But in the end, James couldn’t make it and I lingered at Noddyland, after a good game of tennis with Daisy, not least to see Alastair Cook score his fairytale century … Continue reading “A Few Hours At Lord’s For Middlesex v Kent And Some Memories, 10 September 2018”
I was delighted to be selected to represent the MCC again against Middlesex University Real Tennis Club. This was to be my third go in that fixture – click here to read about the previous go. Even more delighted, because I saw that our captain, Josh Farrall, had picked me to partner Chris Stanton. I … Continue reading “MCC v Middlesex University Real Tennis Club, Lord’s, 16 November 2017”
Things were different back then, I realise at the time of writing (January 2017). For a start, Harry Morgan was on the list of places I definitely wanted to eat, rather than (as now) a place that has gone downhill but still is my last local source of Jewish-style chicken soup and chopped liver, both … Continue reading “Lunch At Harry Morgan With Richard Goatley, Dinner At Mine With John Random and Rohan Candappa, 5 February 2015”
I think a basic version of this song might have sat on my jotter for years before I typed it up and tried to do something with it, but I copyrighted it 29 February 1992. That makes the lyric proper 25 years old this week (at the time of writing), unless you are really pedantic … Continue reading “The Ultimate Love Song, Whoops Vicar, NewsRevue, Ben Murphy…, 29 February 1992”
In 2004 I was honoured to have formed part of a team, as a NewsRevue writer, that really did win a Guinness World Record – explained and illustrated in the piece linked here and below: Ultimate Love and Happy Tories, Ivan Shakespeare Memorial Dinner, Café Rouge Holborn, 3 March 2017 But I had clearly forgotten … Continue reading “Breaking The World Record For Coin Catching With Paul Deacon, Woodfield Avenue, 30 December 1974”
