Quote Of The Day

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)"

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Sofia…

Stuart and I hit the pavements with Slavyan on the @freesofiatour

From Roman ruins & mosques to synagogues, palaces & grand old churches, we got the full historical immersion. Slavyan was brilliantly knowledgeable & very entertaining. 

Nineteen sights in two hours. Highly recommended.


#Sofia #Bulgaria #FreeSofiaTour


















Monday, November 09, 2026

Sunday, November 08, 2026

Cloud 9 @National_Theatre…

Last Friday night Stuart and I went to see Cloud 9 at the Lyttelton Theatre in London’s glitzy South Bank.

Caryl Churchill’s colonial patriarchy meets 1970s sexual liberation. Gender, power and identity get a thoroughly entertaining shake up. Rebecca Humphries, Eloka Ivo, Tom Mothersdale, Charlotte Ritchie, Ellen Robertson, Stuart Thompson and Sam Troughton shine. 

Second act is better than the first. 

At 2hrs 50mins, occasionally is tests the elasticity of one’s posterior though.

⭐️⭐️⭐️


#Cloud9 #CarylChurchill #NationalTheatre






Arsenal 1 - 0 Hull City…

One of those afternoons when Arsenal made hard work of something that really shouldn’t have been. Hull dug in, chances came and went, we should have had a pen, and then Captain Ødegaard popped up on 72 minutes to save everyone’s blood pressure. 

Five league wins on the bounce, six points clear and City beaten by Forest. Lovely stuff.

Onwards and upwards, my friends.

@Arsenal @HullCity #ARSHUL🥅 #COYG #AFC #MartinOdegaard 










Friday, November 06, 2026

When in Prague…

You ride a funicular, you climb a shaky TV tower, you visit a clapped-out old stadium, you eat ribs wearing black latex gloves. Of course you do. 























Thursday, November 05, 2026

Slavia Prague 1 - 2 Arsenal…

A tale of two halves. #Gyökeres was magnificent, setting up #Madueke before scoring a beauty himself. Two up at half time, Arsenal then decided to make the second half unnecessarily interesting. Raya and Gabriel to the rescue as Slavia piled on the pressure. Three points, unbeaten in Europe. Standards, Mikel. Standards!

Oh, I got interviewed on live radio. And had to sing. And the gang got caught on camera. Infamy, infamy, they’ve all got it in for me. 

Onwards and upwards, my friends.

#SLAARS 🥅 #Arsenal @Arsenal #UCL #COYG