Staunton Notebook – July 2018

‘’May you live in interesting times’ is the Chinese benefaction, and ’Boy’ – we certainly do.   Football in Moscow, Tennis at Wimbledon, Lads rescued from a cave in Thailand, Novichok in Salisbury, Donald Trump in Europe.  Oh! – and then there’s Brexit. I...

Staunton Notebook – July 2018

Last Sunday was a day of two halves.  By eight o’clock in the morning the lawns were heaving with people, hundreds of them, throwing themselves into the lake, scrambling out and tearing off the wetsuits, peddling furiously off to Ticknall and Melbourne, and finally...