DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2021
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 31 2021 MONDAY, AUGUST 2 The live streaming of Wally Lewis’s Ross Livermore Memorial Lecture proves a winner, with the Queensland Rugby […]
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DIARY UPDATE: Week 31, 2020
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 31 2020 MONDAY, AUGUST 3 My beautiful, patient, largely understanding wife, Marie (nee Donnelly) turns 70. We enjoy a lovely night at […]
THE FIGHT FOR LIBERATION
TRAVEL A 2011 Rugby Union World Cup match between France and Wales was being played, but you wouldn’t have known it, as the people of Villeneuve-sur-Lot went about their daily […]
WHAT A LOAD OF TRIPE
TRAVEL Roanne was once a power house in rugby league, with the funds to buy rugby union superstars, such as Jean Barthe and Aldo Quaglio, both regarded as the best […]
ROME TO LONDON VIA TIPPERARY
TRAVEL Recently, a mate asked how many times I had been to Britain and/or Europe, and when I answered ’20’, he said I should write a book. I’m not in […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 39, 201
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 39 2019. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 Our train from Bergerac to Paris reaches speeds of 320km, as song ‘Hold Tight’ by Dave Dee, […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 38, 2019
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER. WEEK 38, 2019 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Another day at Aurillac would have been too much. It is not the most exciting town in […]
LET’S GO TO PUB, LUV
Travel “What could be more romantic?”, I said to my wife, Marie, as she contemplated a wedding anniversary lunch with me; a fellow rugby league writer; a rugby league fan/war […]
A LOT TO LIKE ABOUT THIS TOWN
Villeneuve-sur-Lot is a town synonymous with prunes and rugby league, not necessarily in that order. It has been a home away from home for my wife, Marie and I on […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 48, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 48 2017 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 English couple, Terry and Joyce Holmes are our guests on a country drive. Terry is a contributor […]
DIARY UPDATE: Week 45, 2017
DIARY OF A RETIRED RUGBY LEAGUE WRITER WEEK 45 2017 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Remedial Massage physiotherapist, Paula Nutting mentions former Illawarra rugby league player, ‘bone crusher’ Jefferies, as she does […]
THEY LOVE BIG SIRRO IN VILLENEUVE
IN Villeneuve-sur-Lot they still talk about the time ‘big Sirro’ came to town. ‘Big Sirro’ is Paul Sironen, the former international rugby league forward who played 247 matches for his […]
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