Ian Harris
@ianlouisharris.bsky.social
A place for me to spout off about my website, ianlouisharris.com, aka Ogblog, Travel, Theatre, Music, Cricket, Tennis, Writing, Life - what's not to like?
A couple of fun days at Lord's: ianlouisharris.com/2025/08/08/p...
Plums, Spirits, Gunns & The Bionic Quartet: Only At Lord’s, 5 & 8 August 2025
Tennis, Followed By London Spirit v Oval Invincibles Double-Header, Observed Mostly From Pelhams, 5 August 2025 Actually I’m not sure whether we are supposed to pronounce the Lord’s War…
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August 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A couple of fun days at Lord's: ianlouisharris.com/2025/08/08/p...
One of my happiest memories from 40 years ago - doing sixties soul discos with my great buddy John White. A playlist of 75 bangers is linked within this article, so put your dancing shoes on. ianlouisharris.com/1985/05/11/j...
John White & Ian Harris Keele SU Sixties Soul Disco – Diary Entry & Example Playlist, 11 May 1985
John White – too cool for school Keele University John White and I quite often did our sixties soul discos when DJ-ing at Keele. Those “happenings” are among our favourite memorie…
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May 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
One of my happiest memories from 40 years ago - doing sixties soul discos with my great buddy John White. A playlist of 75 bangers is linked within this article, so put your dancing shoes on. ianlouisharris.com/1985/05/11/j...
Forty years on... ianlouisharris.com/1985/03/04/t...
Twixt Keele & Cardiff: Classical Collections & Connections, Early March 1985
Photo by Jacques, CC BY 2.0 While Students’ Union events, gigs and discos were my staple during my sabbatical year, I found myself increasingly listening to classical music on my rare evening…
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March 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A memory of dramatised stories set to classical music: Beano Records, aka Tale Spinners: ianlouisharris.com/1969/01/03/m...
My First Taste Of Classical Music & Dramatised Stories: A Clutch Of Beano Records (aka Tale Spinners), Perhaps Early 1969
Images from Discogs, where some of these Beano Records might be bought. By the summer of 1968, when I turned six, I think I was probably driving my parents a little bit nuts with my enthusiasm for …
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March 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A memory of dramatised stories set to classical music: Beano Records, aka Tale Spinners: ianlouisharris.com/1969/01/03/m...
Loving this report by King Cricket. Here is my own take on the "recent" events reported by Janie (aka Daisy): ianlouisharris.com/1999/08/21/j...
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Loving this report by King Cricket. Here is my own take on the "recent" events reported by Janie (aka Daisy): ianlouisharris.com/1999/08/21/j...
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February 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Last week - potty adventures at Lord’s… ianlouisharris.com/2025/02/02/t...
The MCC Real Tennis Club Weekend & Related Potty Adventures, 31 January To 2 February 2025
Scrubbed up for the Friday evening bash – photo by Jonathan Ellis-Miller This year’s Ogblog report on this wonderful MCC event is authored by a special correspondent, “Two Loos” Le Trek, who …
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February 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Last week - potty adventures at Lord’s… ianlouisharris.com/2025/02/02/t...
40 years ago, I fell asleep in a Senate meeting at Keele - not really the done thing for a student rep…or was it? And more: ianlouisharris.com/1985/02/14/w...
Winning Ways At Keele – Success With The Referendum, “One Of the Most Incisive Statements Ever Made At Senate”, A Divine Valentine’s Evening & Much More From Mid February 1985
Pontificating Nicaragua? Monday, 4 February 1985 – Busy day – did surgery – did referendum forum in evening – drink after – Petra came over. Our Union Committee conducted “surgeries” in…
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February 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
40 years ago, I fell asleep in a Senate meeting at Keele - not really the done thing for a student rep…or was it? And more: ianlouisharris.com/1985/02/14/w...
50 years ago, a rather strange gift from a coroner’s pathologist friend, and more: ianlouisharris.com/1975/02/18/a...
A Private Lesson In Arthroplasty, Hockey, Supervising Entrance Exams, Viola Mooted, A Field Trip To Kew Gardens & Far Too Much TV: Alleyn’s School & Beyond In The First Half Of February 1975
Arnold & Leatrice Levene…Interesting! Let’s be honest – my handwriting did not improve during my Alleyn’s years Sunday 2 February 1975 – classes good. Grandma Anne for t…
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February 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
50 years ago, a rather strange gift from a coroner’s pathologist friend, and more: ianlouisharris.com/1975/02/18/a...
A wonderful combination of history, tennis & theatre at the start of the new year: ianlouisharris.com/2025/01/11/r...
Royal Courts And Good Houses In Renaissance Italy & Sloane Square, Not Least: A Good House by Amy Jephta, Royal Court Theatre, 11 January 2025
The worlds of tennis and theatre were intertwined for several centuries from the Renaissance onwards. I describe these connections in some detail, in the context of late Renaissance England, in the…
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January 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A wonderful combination of history, tennis & theatre at the start of the new year: ianlouisharris.com/2025/01/11/r...
The events of the festive season summarised: ianlouisharris.com/2024/12/19/s...
Several (Seven) Seasonal Events, December 2024
Family gathering at Buenasado in Bristol, 7 December 2024 Gosh it was a busy December of gatherings again this year. Also busy work-wise. Indeed Janie took the following picture early in the month,…
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January 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
The events of the festive season summarised: ianlouisharris.com/2024/12/19/s...
50 years ago...oh dear! ianlouisharris.com/1975/01/18/t...
The End Of The Hols & Start Of Lent Term 1975 At Alleyn’s, During Which My Poor Little Class, 2AK, Got Mauled On The Soccer Field
Unable To Face It – picture from a 1970s Scribblerus OK, which of you horrible other classes led to my humiliating diary confession: Monday 13 January 1975 – lost football match 16-1…
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January 19, 2025 at 10:45 PM
50 years ago...oh dear! ianlouisharris.com/1975/01/18/t...
40 years ago...at Keele...: ianlouisharris.com/1985/01/17/w...
Why Oh FY? – My Most Highly Praised Piece Of Statistical Work Ever, Plus Other Keele Happenings Such As Opening The Real Ale Bar, Early In The Spring Term, 1985
All about timing…more than could be said for the Keele Clock House clock back then I had been approached by some FY (Foundation Year) students at the end of the autumn term who said that they…
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January 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
40 years ago...at Keele...: ianlouisharris.com/1985/01/17/w...
25 years ago...crickey: ianlouisharris.com/1999/12/17/w...
We Partied Like It’s 1999…Because It Was December 1999
Sailing Barge Lady Daphne, Photo by Jtaylor100, CC BY-SA 4.0 “Surprise” Party For Elisabeth Mainelli, Lady Daphne, 2 December 1999 Janie has written directions to St Katherine’s D…
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January 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
25 years ago...crickey: ianlouisharris.com/1999/12/17/w...
This one from a couple of weeks ago might amuse theatre lovers and those with a soft spot for imposter syndrome: ianlouisharris.com/2024/10/29/i...
I, A Facilitator: Beyond The Library, The Mulberry Bush by Angus Wilson c/w Giant by Mark Rosenblatt, Royal Court Theatre, 29 October 2024
Angus Wilson from Wikipedia, used on the same fair use basis as Wikipedia. I wonder whether Angus Wilson would have seen the funny side of this? As it happens I wasn’t working on Monday (the …
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November 15, 2024 at 9:01 AM
This one from a couple of weeks ago might amuse theatre lovers and those with a soft spot for imposter syndrome: ianlouisharris.com/2024/10/29/i...
A special day: ianlouisharris.com/2024/11/13/a...
A Joyful Day Of International Real (Court) Tennis At Lord’s, Followed By Dinner, With The Burghers Of Newport Rhode Island, 13 November 2024
l to r standing: Peter, Graeme, Giles, Graham, Me, Jonathan, Piers, Chris, Nick, Paul T, Paul B-B, Kelsey, Susan, Noel, Ellen, Steve, Tony. l-r kneeling: Keith, Chris, Sarah. With thanks to Kelsey …
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November 14, 2024 at 8:46 PM
A special day: ianlouisharris.com/2024/11/13/a...
Here's a write up of my latest jaunt: ianlouisharris.com/2024/11/10/a...
A Short Autumn Break In A 15th Century Cottage In An Old Market Town Part Two: Saffron Walden, 7 to 10 November 2024
John & Mandy suggested that we visit Saffron Walden for the dual purpose of seeing The Sixteen perform at Saffron Hall and to allow John to cook for us in his newly-extended kitchen… R…
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November 14, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Here's a write up of my latest jaunt: ianlouisharris.com/2024/11/10/a...