With the World Cup just days away, we’re focusing our energy this week on getting as prepared for the summer of football as we possibly can. The World Cup tends to get the whole country going football crazy, especially when the national team does well. Although the England football team’s chances are being severely talked…
As we enter the final few days of play at the Crucible, snooker has hit its annual height in popularity, for what that’s worth. Sure, snooker may not be the world’s chief glamour sport but you have to have a lot of love (or at least a quiet appreciation) for a sport that encourages such a…
Last week I met with Russell Hall, one of the founders of Hailo, a free smartphone app that gets you a licensed taxi without needing to hail one from the street. He’s a very charming cabbie and I love the app because I can usually get a cab within 5-10 minutes and they don’t know I’m…
The sun is out, spring has arrived and we find ourselves on the cusp of summer. All this means that the rough and ready, loutish football season is nearly over and, although the World Cup will soon follow, we can embrace the return of the gentleman’s game, the thinking man’s football – Cricket… Blind Cricket…
Tomorrow is the day of the most famous horse race in the world – the Grand National. Due to its length and the difficulty of its jumps, including the infamous Becher’s Brook and The Chair, the Grand National been described as the ultimate test of horse and rider. In a crowded field the forty jockeys…
The biggest ever Winter Paralympic Games are now just hours away! It’s a shame that the games seem set to begin with the spectre of difficulty in Ukraine lurking in the background, but hopefully the Ukrainians will participate and the situation won’t impinge too much on what should be an exciting ten days of sport.…
For once I went back to somewhere I’d reviewed before for a second visit – Tom’s Kitchen in King’s Rd. It was for a quiet birthday celebration of one of my Lieutenants and I can say it was as good as the last time but for the fact we had a table tucked in by…
It’s been a fairly quiet week for me, in terms of reviewing and auditing new venues, as I’ve just been so busy with work. But, ever the multi-tasker, I managed to sneak in a couple of meetings at stylish venues which allowed me to kill two birds with one stone. One of these was a…
This week I had to go for a routine appointment at Charing Cross Hospital, everything went well until I left and being pushed along the pavement we were stopped by this: It was an uneven pavement compounded by a slab that was loose and was raised by a good 5cm. Good job I don’t have…