Every time I pick up my guitar I prove Radiohead wrong. Some people just don’t have a knack for music at all. Unfortunately far too many of them find enough success in another field that they feel tempted to dabble in music too. There is a long line of actors who think that if a […]
Entries Tagged as 'Sport'
Shooting Star
September 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Shooting Star · Life
The round-up of the Paralympics on the BBC tonight showed a bit of the shooting competition, where Matt Skelhon won a gold medal. I hadn’t seen coverage of Paralympic or Olympic shooting before – possibly because it is one of the least TV-friendly sports so doesn’t get shown much
The Chinese Way
September 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life
I have been watching a bit of the Beijing Paralympics over the last couple of days, although the coverage is not as extensive as it was for the Olympics. What little I have seen has been so exciting and enjoyable that I think the whole idea of the Paralympic games should be scrapped.
Weather With You
August 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Weather With You · Life
I am, perhaps surprisingly, feeling quite positive about the London Olympics. It is fashionable to don the traditional British cloak of cynicism and assume they will be an unmitigated disaster: the facilities will not be finished in time, and will be crap, there will be organisational chaos, and the opening ceremony will be underwhelming and […]
Games People Play
August 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Greatly enjoying the Olympics, and slightly resenting having to return to work and miss all the live coverage. What a welcome change it is to be able to look at the results and not be embarrased about the GB performance. The first Olympics I can even vaguely remember was Mexico in 1968 where we got […]
New Gold Dream
August 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Life
I am starting to wish I had started my holidays a week later. I am enjoying watching the Olympics, but now I have to return to work on Monday. Today was good though: not just for the gold medals in swimming and rowing, and the many medals in cycling but also for the commentary. Towards […]
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
August 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger · Life
Having a couple of weeks off work, and not going away anywhere, I have been able to watch a bit of the Olympics this week. Today there was some eventing, women’s weightlifting and canoeing, leading to the normal speculations, plus a few unique to the 2008 Olympics.
Natural’s not in it
July 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
I have just seen the sport edition of Mastermind with Des Lynam occupying the Magnus Magnusson/John Humphrys seat and I still can’t believe it. I have never seen a TV presenter looking less relaxed. I stumbled across a review of this the other day which said the same thing at great length and I thought […]
Superstars
July 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Superstars · Life
I don’t usually find myself watching Five, but tonight I had a look at Superstars.  I tuned in because I half-remembered reading somewhere that the show was going to be in Crawley’s K2 leisure centre at some point: I kept watching because the format is pretty compulsive.
Anyone for tennis?
July 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · Life
I can’t really get into tennis. I used to enjoy playing it, but I can’t derive much enjoyment from watching it. I saw the last 30 minutes of Andy Murray getting beaten in straight sets and even that was a bit dull. This was a quarter final of one of the top events in the […]
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