Blog Archive ~ August 2010
Playing to the gallery
I spent three days in Madrid last week with Chris Beetles and Simon Bainbridge, wandering around three of the most exciting art galleries in the world - the Prado, the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen, before we travelled on to Scotland to spend the rest of the week in Edinburgh.
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One Last Dance
Last night I went to see Terence Rattigan's play, After the Dance at the National Theatre, following so many recommendations, both from the professional critics and fellow theatre-goers. But when I arrived at the theatre and read that the show was three hours 15 minutes, I wondered if I'd be able to concentrate for the full production. But the critics were right. I was gripped from the moment the curtain rose, to the last line of this remarkable play.
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Return to business
Mary and I returned from our holiday on Friday. We had a marvellous twelve days on Cunard's Queen Victoria which has replaced the QEII of which we both have such fond memories. This time we did a trip round the Mediterranean, taking in Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Livorno, Civitavecchia and Gibraltar. We also managed to pass through the Bay of Biscay both ways on an almost pond-like surface. Came back to 750 emails, which I will be ploughing through this week in an attempt to answer every one of them.
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Fair punishment
So much has been written in the last few days about the cheating during the final Test at Lord's, that there's not a lot I can add for my friends in Pakistan. First, let me say I attended the third day of the match, when Trott and Broad broke so many records that you would assume they would take most front pages of the newspapers, whereas in fact they didn't even make the back pages.
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