A most enjoyable evening last night presenting on cricket and law (based on my book Court and Bowled). Best of all was the very knowledgeable audience including this presentable chap! amzn.eu/d/6lQJWUO

Further to my post the other day, I remembered I had the following letter in The Times earlier this year, though since the time of Denning (and at least in part due to his son, an eminent academic chemist), I’m trusting Magdalen at least are free of this sort of Bullingdonesque oiks …

This arrived in the post today. I thought one article might appeal to the cricketing cognoscenti here. @wgrumblepants.bsky.social

Happy birthday to the actor & playwright Arnold Ridley, a man with a remarkable war record, as discussed in my book Noble Savages (tinyurl.com/mjm8re4p), even if he was better known as Godfrey from Dad's Army (of which one of the most moving episodes concerned Godfrey's Great War experiences).

The past is a foreign country: this is just under 40 years old, with most letters concerning events just over 40 years before then. Some could be straight from The Wipers Times. The bad language one reminds me of a 1970s case discussed in my first book. And Humph would have loved the ISIHAC one …

A treasured memory from 10 years ago today, of which F Book has just reminded me.

Christine Keeler died on this day in 2017. A sad story of exploitation when she was young & vulnerable. Lord Denning came to national fame with his public inquiry into the scandal generated by Keeler's affair with John Profumo, as I've explained in my Denning bio here: bit.ly/3OFCgQq #LordDenning

Some more pictures of Rumbles’ ground here. As it’s part of a winery in NZ’s Marlborough region this has a pretty good claim to be the most idyllic cricket ground of all.

Sharing something black & white

One for the historically curious: @sheracing.bsky.social and I visited the Shell Grotto today. Intriguing speculation but no certainty about the grotto’s origins; anyone have a theory?
www.shellgrotto.co.uk/discover

Apparently this is the present interior of the Old Bank of England pub. That being so it’s been rather spruced up since my days there …@legalmusings.bsky.social @sheracing.bsky.social

Watching an old episode of The Twilight Zone I was reminded that the US and UK are divided by a common language … @susiedent.bsky.social apart from the number of letters please tell me this would be invalid on Countdown …

I thought this was more your era Rumbles:

C/- the Facebook site NZ 1980s memories, here is someone once said to be the most recognisable person in the country:

Post for Remembrance Sunday: while researching my bio of Lord Denning, I found the CWGC grave of his brother Gordon, who served in the Royal Navy including at Jutland.