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And Peter Handke's novel Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter* * The goalie's fear at a penalty kick

I keep thinking of learning Android and Kotlin, but retirement may be too short for that. The other alternative for Android is Java and having spent much of my career working for the publisher of Java, I hate it with a vengeance :)

If you have an iPhone, it's a free app that I wrote: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/hastings-line/id1635386615

I'll just mention that upstairs was rather good, after a little queuing and being let in in batches of 5 or 6. Band playing, enough seats, a free drink for card holders. Since retirement I just have the most basic Amex blue charge card, it's nothing special, but was glad of it yesterday...

It just shows though - sold-out match, no-one leaving early and the train queue cleared pretty quickly. It just needs the rolling stock. SN must have run a lot of near-empty 7/8-car trains though when the game went to extra time

Looking good after as well

Looks like Southern are listening. All 8 or 7 car formations for today’s game

As requested, BHA towel in Marrakesh today. Not at a game (will be watching tonight’s CAF WC qualifier in the hotel, they have a huge projection screen), also sadly not in thé square with the snake charmers, in case the cobras support CPFC I’ll be back shivering at the Amex for Saturday’s FA...

Flying there tomorrow morning assuming BA Heathrow flight is on and we can navigate around the M25 closure One thing the missus is keen on and we have pre-booked online is a visit of Jardin Majorelle (reknowned gardens restored by Yves St-Laurent). Trip is for her birthday so she gets to...

Due to fly to Marrakech on Sunday morning from LHR, fingers crossed When Gatwick was closed due to a drone incident (December 2018 if I remember correctly) we got a couple of extra days in Buenos Aires, covered by insurance. It not always all bad

You probably already know, but that’s the importance of the Rosetta Stone displayed at the BM. It contains the same text in hieroglypshs, demotic (cursive) script and Greek. This led to JF Champollion deciphering hieroglyphs for the first time in 1822. An amazing object and one that Egypt...

As a member of the British Museum and lover of Greece, I would probably say yes, but where do you stop? I’m currently studying hieroglyphs there and would be sad not to spend time looking at the Rosetta Stone and other Egyptian artifacts each week

Ah, but imagine how old those chocolate bars were I remember a vending machine at Staines station that sold Walters Potato Puffs for much longer than anywhere else. They were addictive (but increasingly stale…)

Two goals from set pieces!

I don’t think many would have got to that, to be fair to Bart

This is the 4K live game today on French TV (Canal + Foot), time to open a beer

Caliban's Dream from the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony

I was watching the Lugano conference home game on simulcast and I have seen bigger crowds at Hastings United, the stadium was near empty

That could also be said of Tokaji wines. Had a meal at Vadrózsa in Budapest, in the old days when it was one of the rare private restaurants in a nice villa, and experienced a full range of tokaji wines with every course, from the expected sweet to bone dry with fish

I recall an expensive bottle of dry Alsace Riesling at a two-star restaurant in Colmar. Never had anything close since then, any Riesling that has been recommended is closer to Blue Nun