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Golf Grip
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- Or the Oldest Member Clubs
P. G Wodehouse’s ‘The Heart of a Goof’ is superficially about golf – and you might need to check-out a couple of key words and phrases, not least mashie-niblick, in order to savour to the full all the delights contained......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-05 03:49:23 |
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Books
PG Wodehouse
Golf
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Stolen Fire
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A lesson in not responding soon enough to blog ideas - a politician will come along and steal your fire! Johnson - odd looking Mayor of London - has connected a connection which is obvious to make. The Gruniad reports on his appearance before a House of Commons committee on Knife crime and he......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-17 01:38:47 |
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London
Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Knife Crime
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Classic Flop?
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I first read the thing back in the summer 1975 (I can be sure of the date because it was part of my University set reading – I was going ‘up’ to Leicester to study for a B.Sc. and some ‘wit’ had included this on the list of ‘books to study before coming’......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-18 05:38:41 |
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Kingsley Amis
Lucky Jim
Book Review
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Nobel Aspirations!
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There was talk, when Ian McEwan’s ‘On Chesil Beach’ was up for The Booker Prize, of its shortness: The implication is of a slight story, of a lack of depth – of ‘all very well, but …’.
I take it the people talking in that way either use a......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-20 02:06:06 |
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Book Review
Ian McEwan
Booker Prize
Nobel Prize
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The Animated Shrew
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I like ‘Shakespeare: The Animated Tales’ as a concept and, of the ones I’ve seen so far, (most of the time) in execution: The texts, superbly sliced by Leon Garfield, abridgements rather than rewrites; the animations various in style, all of the highest quality, filmed in the......Read More
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Posted on: 2008-07-22 07:22:15 |
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Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew
Animation
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