Sunday was a catalogue of missed opportunities! It started with England’s one day cricket match with Australia in Melbourne. England recorded a score of 294 all out in their 50 overs. Their innings was remarkable for how badly Australia bowled and fielded and the general consensus of opinion was that England’s total should have been [...]

I was listening to an interview with the Actor Colin Firth yesterday to publicise his new film, ‘The King’s Speech’. During the interview he mentioned that he was trying to engineer a mid life crisis, but he was continually being ‘ambushed by good fortune.’ What a marvellous position to be in. I don’t generally start [...]

After what seems like months, I managed a round of golf on Monday with my mate Dave. Pre Christmas and the incredible snow storms that blanketed the whole country, I did play 2  rounds where the amount of putting practice I had put in seemed to pay off. Despite the fact we were playing on [...]

Well Christmas has come and gone and we are into a new year. 2011! Christmas has generally been spent with my immediate family, my sister and her family and my mother and as we have the largest house, so can put everybody up, its generally been spent at our house. This year, (2010) we wanted [...]