Is The Rough Sport Of Boxing An Art For Dear Gentlemen?
30 Mar 2010 2 Comments
in Old English Traditions, Society & Culture, Sport, theatre Tags: Abul Taher, agression, blood, boxing, bravado, fighting, honour, kick, kid galahad, Mike Skierniewski, Monte Cox, punch, randy randall, strength, Towers, violence
Five months ago I went to see a British Lightweight Title fight at Altrincham Leisure Centre, near Manchester. There were several fights by less well known boxers on before the main fight. Why did I go to see it? I’m not sure really, maybe it had something to do with my preconceptions about boxing being a violent, bloody confusing few minutes in which – after the scantily clad attractive ladies had walked around the ring holding their round cards;
fists would fly and then there would be two hurt men flopping themselves over ropes looking like they may be about to have their first heart attacks.
Robin Ince – School For Gifted Children
30 Mar 2010 3 Comments
in Artists, Comedy, music, theatre Tags: Alan Moore, bloomsbury, Bridget Christie, calmness, Comedy, friendship, happiness, innocence, Jim Bob, Joanna Neary, Kevin Eldon, Robin Ince, School For Gifted Children, Stewart Lee, theatre, variety, variety show
Last night Robin Ince hosted the School For Gifted Children at the Bloomsbury Theatre at the UCL in London. It was a variety show & tell, with more fantastic artists than you could possible shake a stick at.
Springtime – The Season of Lambing!
14 Mar 2010 2 Comments
in nature Tags: birth, ewe, food, food cycle, hadlow college, lamb, lambing, meat, newborn, sheep, spring, springtime, vegetarian
Ah, sweet bliss! The days are getting longer and warmer, plants and trees are starting to grow again and ewes are giving birth to their lambs. How can anyone resist smiling when they see those lovely little lambs doing their funny hoppy jumps around the fields? This weekend I paid a visit to Hadlow College Hadlow College – an agricultural college just 22 miles south east of London. They had an open weekend which allowed visitors to walk around their lambing shed, look at newborn lambs and if fortunate enough, see a lamb or two being born. I was lucky enough to catch a birth on film when I visited;
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