Life
Low life
I took the only spare chair on the terrace of the Modern bar, one of four bars on this Provençal…
Long life
In the four months since I had a brain haemorrhage I have had several tests to find out how my…
Battle for Britain
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Adams apple
Grandmaster Michael Adams turned in a superlative performance earlier this month to win the British Championship for the fifth time.…
no. 422
White to play. This is a position from Adams-R. Pert, British Championship, Bournemouth 2016. What is White’s most direct route…
Act of contrition
In Competition No. 2961 you were invited to submit limericks that might have been written by Boris Johnson in an…
Dear Mary
Q. My partner and I have been living together for 26 years, but now that he’s asked me to marry…
Magic at St Michael’s Mount
The Sail Loft is under a castle on a mountain on an island in the sea; for that, I could…
High life
An item in an American newspaper had me thinking of my father all last week. Old dad died 27 years…
Long life
In the four months since I had a brain haemorrhage I have had several tests to find out how my…
Long life
In the four months since I had a brain haemorrhage I have had several tests to find out how my…
Low life
I took the only spare chair on the terrace of the Modern bar, one of four bars on this Provençal…
Low life
I took the only spare chair on the terrace of the Modern bar, one of four bars on this Provençal…
Chrononhotonthologos
When I ran out of space last week, I was about to mention the way in which some people relish…
status
Whenever I try to use the NHS I end up feeling like Bruce Willis’s character in The Sixth Sense. No…
Our (nearly) golden summer
It seems like a long time ago, but back in the day, when Sir John Major launched the National Lottery,…
Hurrah for Cornish holidays!
After the misery of going abroad for the summer holidays for the past few years, I’m now happily back in…
Hurrah for Cornish holidays!
After the misery of going abroad for the summer holidays for the past few years, I’m now happily back in…
Blessed be the humble
After 30 years in racing it is a little late in Rab Havlin’s career to suggest that he will suddenly…
Blessed be the humble
After 30 years in racing it is a little late in Rab Havlin’s career to suggest that he will suddenly…
Bridge
Bridge players love going on about system. Some want every bid to have a conventional meaning and some want to…
Battle for Britain
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to 2270: Hard
Seven unclued lights were names of VERSE-MEN (22) minus one letter: VI(R)GIL (1A), BRO(O)KE (15A), BRID(G)ES (16), DON(N)E (9), S(P)ENDER…
2273: Numbers
Clockwise round the perimeter from 3 run the titles of three items (1, 6, 3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4,…
Summertime
In Competition No. 2960 you were invited to submit a poem on the theme of summer in which the last…
