From the Club History page of yesterday’s programme for the Rothwell Town v Olney Town match – “Evidence exists today of a signed balance sheet from 1903, one interesting item on the balance sheet gives the information that just over £1 was credited as proceeds from a smoking competition.” Perhaps Andrew Flintoff should consider trying [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Smoking’
A Fund Raising Idea From 1903
Posted in Cricket, Football, Smoking, Sport, tagged Andrew Flintoff, Charity, Cricket, Football, Olney Town F.C., Rothwell Town F.C., Smoking, Sport Relief on March 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Old England by G.A. Studdert Kennedy
Posted in Arts, Church of England, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Smoking, tagged G.A. Studdert Kennedy, Poetry, Smoking, War poetry, Woodbine Willie, World War 1 on November 13, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Also known by his nom de guerre ”Woodbine Willie”, Studdert Kennedy was, as the dust wrapper suggests, “perhaps the most famous Padre serving in the first world war”. The nickname derived from his habit of handing out handfuls of cigarettes while offering spiritual sustenance to the troops. He appears to have been genuinely well thought of by [...]
Foolish things : Eric Maschwitz and Bryan Ferry
Posted in Arts, Media, Music, Smoking, TV, tagged Bryan Ferry, Eric Maschwitz, Lulu, Music, Otis Ferry, Smoking, Spring on March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
March already – a windy month, traditionally, and one that will, for many of us, call to mind the lines “The winds of March that made my heart a dancer”, from the song I’m about to play for you tonight – These Foolish Things. I wouldn’t say that my heart is exactly a dancer at the [...]
Is Simon Heffer mad?
Posted in Blogging, Media, Newspapers, Smoking, tagged Madness, Notes and queries, Simon Heffer, Smoking, Tinchy Stryder on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Search of the day on this blog has to be the above enquiry. The answer, of course, is that he is quite as sane as you or me (or I, if you prefer – I’m sure that Hef offers some guidance on this point somewhere in his Telegraph style guide). No idea, I’m afraid, whether Tinchy Stryder [...]
Smoke Fairies, or My Lady Nicotine
Posted in Arts, Films, Music, Smoking, tagged Films, Georges Melies, Music, Old Grey Whistle Test, Smoke Fairies, Smoking on September 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some readers might have the impression that the author of this blog is some silly old fool who sits here all day, covered in a thick layer of dust, reading cricket books from the early years of the last century. Nothing could be further from the truth. This blog is, as we all must be, [...]
Smoking cricketers
Posted in Cricket, Smoking, Sport, tagged Andrew Flintoff, Ashes, Cricket, Matthew Hoggard, Simon Jones, Smoking, Steve Harmison on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve mentioned before the number of readers of this blog who come here in seach of ”cricketers in their underwear”*. Another surprisingly common search seems to be “cricketers smoking”. Now, I’d like to think this is because they’d like a look at this magnificent sight- but I suspect they have other motives. What these are [...]
Swan Vestas and Una muerte lenta y dolorosa
Posted in Birds, Nature, Smoking, This England, tagged Disease, Match box labels, Smoking, Spanish, Swan Vestas on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bought some matches the other day – Swan Vestas. A special design, apparently celebrating 125 years : 1883-2008. I’d have thought it was a little hazardous for a match manufacturer to be celebrating anything that went on in the matchmaking industry in the 1880s (though Vestas were apparently made in Bootle, not Bow, and weren’t [...]
Freddie Flintoff, Freddie Brown and “that riotous living”
Posted in Arts, Autobiography, Cricket, Media, Newspapers, Smoking, Sport, tagged Alcohol, Andrew Flintoff, Ashes, Autobiography, Cricket, Freddie Brown, Newspapers, Smoking on July 1, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I see Andrew Flintoff appears to be in the soup again after missing the team bus for a visit to the war graves in Flanders. (I have to say (parenthetically) that this strikes me as being a rather dubious enterprise (and possibly Buchanan-inspired?). The Australians, I believe, set a precedent by visiting Gallipoli en route to the Ashes [...]
It is little I repair to the matches of the Southron folk …
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Smoking, Sport, This England, tagged Cricket, Leicestershire, Lord's, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!!!, Smoking on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The silliest place I’ve ever been told to stop smoking? I think it has to be here – http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Nat_West_media_centre_cropped.jpg (Any sign here of a “semi-enclosed space” – I think not.) To get the full picture you have to bear in mind that this was on the Friday afternoon of one of Middlesex’s County Championship fixtures, [...]
