As I look out on to my garden, the thermometer is nudging 27 centigrade in Hatch Warren which is quite extraordinary for the end of September. More remarkable still, is the distinct possibility that the hottest weather of 2011 may well end up being in April and September/October. The azure blue skies resemble the height of June or July and it is likely that the fine weather will last well in to the weekend. However I am off ...
Diane and I had a weekend break in Dorset and what a lovely weekend of various activities it was. We began our trip stopping of at the picturesque Stourton house near Warminster which is under the control of the national trust. If you are a keen photographer it is a lovely place to visit with a stunning lake and surrounding garden walks ideal for picnics etc. We then proceeded southwards on our journey in to Dorchester where I had booked the ...
One of the great things about working from home is having the luxury of being able to listen to the radio; in fact I have the radio on all day. It is kind of ironic that I don't watch much TV at all but I listen to the radio for several hours a day......on my television. The advent of digital television allows me to listen radio 4 and 5 without out the interference of listening to it on Long Wave or Amplitude Modulation otherwise known as LW and ...
I started reading a book this weekend that I know some of you will be familiar with. It is called Bounce by Matthew Syed and it is a brilliant insight in to what we all assume is natural or prodigious talent. I only wish I had read it before I became a cricket coach, it would have taught me so much about the training of the human brain and how world championship talent can only be created by a ridiculous number of hours of practice, 10,000 ...
I did something in the newsagents in Broughton today that I haven't done for as long as I can remember and though I am ashamed of myself, I did it for the right reasons. No, I didn't buy a pornographic magazine and a box of Kleenex, it was far worse than that.....I bought a copy of The Daily Telegraph! Before anyone asks, no I haven't fallen for the charms of David Cameron and George Osborne and joined the lower middle class branch of ...