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It strikes me that golf's great virtue is that it gets you out of the house, away from everyday bothers, away from the endless round of looking... →
Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that makes you want to empty... →
Like many men who play tennis, when I hit a ball into the net, I tend to look daggers at my racket, reproaching it for playing so badly when I myself... →
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But... →
Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that the only flowers to be admitted to the walled... →
Personally, I belong to the speedy school of golf. If it were left up to me, I would introduce a new rule that said every golf ball has to stay in... →
There are few things quite so effortlessly enjoyable as watching an eminent person getting in a huff and flouncing out of a television interview... →
Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls... →
What would we do without plaques to tell us who lived where and when? They introduce the past into the present, and are the quickest and most... →
When I was a boy, I used to stay with a school friend in Bexhill, in Sussex, which was then well-known for being the town with more oldies than any... →
Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms.... →
Women are more sensitive, more practical, more intelligent, more balanced, better able to deal with people, better cooks, better parents, better... →