I WISH YOU ENOUGH  

I WISH YOU ENOUGH  

We go to a restaurant and are told we can eat whatever and as much as we want, so what do we  do? If we are male, we fill our plate as full as possible and then come back for more; we approach  the dessert table with delight (initially that read “with...
WHITE LIES MATTER  

WHITE LIES MATTER  

It may be hard for some of us to believe (not because of who said it but because of the content of  what is said) what the American businesswoman Mary Kay Ash once claimed, “There are two things  people want more than sex and money.” Our initial thought as...
AVOIDING AMEN CORNER

AVOIDING AMEN CORNER

Mention the phrase “Amen Corner” and there will be few golfers who do not know where it is to be  found. It was brought back into our attention this past week when The Masters golf tournament,  one of golf’s prestigious four ‘Majors’, was played at Augusta...
CONQUERING THE CORRIDOR OF UNCERTAINTY

CONQUERING THE CORRIDOR OF UNCERTAINTY

It goes without saying that a Head can easily tell whether a parent was a good or bad pupil when the  parent was a child at school! All a Head needs to do is watch the parent walking down the corridor  to the Head’s office and see how he or she acts. If the...
TENNYSON ON TENNIS 

TENNYSON ON TENNIS 

Not many people will know that Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of the great Romantic poets, was a  talented sportsman; it is probably true to say that we do not normally associate sports people with  having a love or ability for poetry (and especially Romantic...