Leonard Cohen, me and Cricket
When the Observer reviewed Leonard Cohen’s posthumous 2018 book of Poetry, The Flame, they called it ‘the last word in love and despair’,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jul 6, 20202 min
It’s Back!
At 91, Ennio Morricone was too young to die. The veteran composer of, amongst other things, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and The...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jun 26, 20204 min
Time for some (very) civil disobedience
‘Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine’, said Henry David Thoreau. He said lots more about civil disobedience, but just...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 20, 20202 min
Somewhere out there….
If a satellite, or a Martian, transited high above my village right now, it might capture as an image a large and unearthly, rectangular...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Sep 7, 20193 min
Bang goes another prejudice.
My favourite moment in 2018 came at about 10.24 p.m on 31stMarch. In fact, for a year, I kept going back onto Youtube to make sure that...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Aug 23, 20193 min
Tomorrow is not promised.
‘Life is all memory,’ said Tennessee Williams, ‘except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.’...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jul 26, 20193 min
An End to Ritual
To belong to a tribe, you have first to understand its rituals. Here in Britain, for example, you need to understand that the question...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jul 7, 20196 min
When a Trojan horse backfires
‘We are what we repeatedly do,’ said Aristotle to no one in particular. ‘Excellence is not an act, but a habit’. Aristotle may have been...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 16, 20194 min
The fine art of utter incompetence
I think we can agree it was sub-optimal. Cricket is a statistical game for statistically minded people and, by any measure, the raw stats...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 12, 20193 min
File Under ‘Miscellaneous’
No one actually buys a filing cabinet. Filing cabinets just appear in your house one day and, like that annoying Patek Philippe...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Feb 1, 20193 min
Midwinter Bees vs Cricketers
My bees are bloody freezing. It’s that time of year when you don’t even dare to open the top of the hive to see if they’ve got enough to...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 31, 20182 min
June Whitfield. LBW Westmore. 41
I don’t really drop names, but only because I have so few to drop. If you only have a couple, you tend to take extra care of them....
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 13, 20184 min
Refugee.
Loss cuts many ways. When our lovely friend and club wicket keeper died seven years ago, a small group of us sat in the Queen’s Head in...
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