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There’s something thoroughly entertaining about Nadal.

He plays with intensity and with fire; a steely determination to never give up, never allow a single point to slip away. He literally plays every point as if he were against match point. And yet, he has such [...]

In The Sunday Times today, there is an interesting piece on England the football team.

It is about what went wrong, about why they failed so woefully at the World Cup.

John Carlin interviewed Spanish midfield wizard Xabi Alonso, who said, very eloquently, that the 11 best does not make the best 11.

In other words, we can [...]

It’s fully possible to recycle them. And yet, either people forget that, or they don’t properly realise that you can do.

Mine can’t be the only house with old phones laying forgotten and discarded in shadowy corners of the house?

I’ve seen many offers over the years trying to entice me to sell my own mobile for [...]

With my post-graduate course drawing to a close, I’m having to look around at jobs that I can apply for when it finishes. And now, I suppose. Better to get the applications in as early as possible.

When I first came out of university, there was barely a job to go around. In [...]

With the holidays looming, and pay day arriving last week, I’ve decided to do a bit of window shopping online.

Is it “window” shopping when there are no windows involved? Well, in any case, I have been doing some online shopping and not actually buying anything – yet.

Mostly, it has been books, I suppose. I think [...]

Plans are afoot to go abroad, to America, one weekend soon.

An extended weekend, of sorts: Friday through Monday, and we would probably stay in a hostel somewhere.

The thing that’s so tempted about it is that it will be right in the middle of American football season, and not only would we get to watch [...]

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So much for the group being easy for England, eh? It was supposed to be a breeze; and yet, the squad found a way to struggle, playing like strangers against Algeria, and letting in a tame goal against the USA.

There is not much longer [...]

Waiting for news on my broken laptop, I actually lost track of time. Days blurred into weeks, weeks into months. I think, now, it has been something like three months of annoyance: three months of waiting to hear something – and inevitably hearing nothing.

And now I have decided to never buy an HP laptop ever [...]

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There hasn’t been much in the way of American football coverage in print over here ever since First Down stopped. NBA magazines continued, boxing magazines are all over the place, but American football? Nothing. And even when First Down was around, it was mostly [...]

My friend recently gave a presentation on age and ageism: age is just a number, was the general gist of it; and it is not something that limits you, or should limit you. And it is wonderful stories like this that proves that you can still pull off some miraculous feats even when you’re 90.
Because [...]