I was fortunate enough to watch a family friend and A N Other win the UK under 15 boys doubles championship a couple of years ago and yes the speed of play was amazing, probably highlighted by being courtside as […]

I’ve not watched a game of tennis from start to finish for years either and was hooked after the second and third games.

Tremendous stuff from both players. The ferocity with which they hit the ball amazed m […]

Lots of County Championship cricket is streamed online these days. It could be as little as a static camera focused on the wicket or there might be two or three cameras following the ball. It’s basically grown f […]

Agreed, their last album was great, probably their best since Do You Like Rock Music. Hopefully the new album is as good.

If they want to change their name, let them do so. It’s their band after all.

I’ve just got home from Trent Bridge after what turned out to be a cracking game. More a case of the Superchargers losing the game than the Rockets winning it with Stokes dropping an absolute dolly which Hales t […]

I’ve tried every picture size setting on my reasonably up to date telly and only about half of the graphics on either side of the screen are showing. At the moment it’s ‘uns ired 8’, ‘score 8’ and ‘bal lef 5’ […]

Over rates in domestic T20 have been fine since its inception (75 minutes to start the final over or it’s a five run penalty) but international T20 over rates are dreadful, much like test cricket. It does need sorting.

I can heartily recommend the UE Wonderboom 2. Amazing sound, both in terms of clarity and volume from something so small and portable.

I saw them at Rock City way back and I reckon there were 25 of them then too. Took them an age to get on stage. I can’t remember if they went through the rigmarole of clearing off at the end and then coming back f […]

Birmingham Poly, 1988-92.

Being from Nottingham I lived too close to Brum to get into halls and was on a fruitless search of bedsits when I bumped into a couple of lads from Cannock and we ended up renting a […]

I’ve never been a big rugby fan but I saw the great Barbarians try by Gareth Edwards against the All Blacks again recently. Great commentary by Cliff Morgan who I can also remember presenting Sport on Four on R […]

Motörhead, Sherwood fuckin’ Forest (as Lemmy described it), north Notts, 2003.

My only experience of Lemmy and co (not really my thing but I thought it was something I should experience at least once) and bo […]

The Ansthruther Fish Bar is as good as the hype. I haven’t tasted fish that tastes so much of the sea as I have there.

I had fish and chips at The Little Fish and Chip Shop in Southwold on a much needed week a […]

A pea mix is chips and peas in the East Midlands.

Exactly. Look where America’s aggressive foreign policy since his presidency has got the world.

Watched this on Saturday evening and can heartily recommend it. From asking his favourite bands and performers to do fundraising gigs during the presidential race to inviting them to perform at White House garden […]

Having a social diary that is double booked does raise questions about the ‘dull’ persona you regularly purport to have.

Never happens to me.

Or a jitteh in Notts.

Keeping my sanity and helping my mum keep hers has probably been my biggest achievement of the year.

Lockdown started almost to the day one year on from us losing my sister to cancer. I know I was still […]