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Send us Fan Mail Sinner v Alcaraz. A great tennis match  The French Open semi-final, 2024 7 June A thrilling match took place between two of the brightest young male tennis stars. The Italian Jannick Sinner and the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz arrived at the semifinal of the French Open as No 2 and 3 seeds respectively.  Their paths to the semi-final road had been made easier by the retirement from inj...

Send us Fan Mail This audio-diary has been compiled throughout the UK general election called for the 5th July 2024. It is completed unedited.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom. Early June, 2024 @deelomas My three favourite things are eating my family and not using commas.  Re-edited … @Upliftingvision Remember: Charlie Chaplin died aged 88. He left us 4 statements: (1) Nothing is eternal in this world, not even our problems. (2) I like to walk in the rain, because no one can see my tears. (3) The most wasted day in life is the day we don&...

Send us Fan Mail Fantasy News Channel  31 May 2024 Today we are reporting on the capture of Donald Trumpolanus and the vows of the Megalomanian army to rescue him and restore him to his rightful position as Emperor of  Magalomania.  A faithful retainer, Piers Poorman spoke up, his voice unable to conceal his agony. ‘This is a sad, shameful and ridiculous day for our country. To drag a former Emper...

Send us Fan Mail The French tennis open, Wednesday 29 May, 2024 Victory goes to the most tenacious. Swiatek v Osaka A heroic sentiment.  Found written in English, in the very Gallic location the Rolland Garros stadium, Paris, France.  But that is not the  most surprising aspect of this story. Historically,Roland Garros was a French aviation hero becoming one of the earliest fighter pilots who was...

Send us Fan Mail These chess lessons in audio form are provided for parents and would-be chess beginners at the Northern Tennis club, Didsbury.  You will need a chess board and a set chess if you want to study some of the answers.  It will also help if you know how to pause and restart the audio.  First some revision questions. You now know how the chess pieces move, the value of the pieces, their...

Send us Fan Mail End of season blues. Things can only get better. Wednesday 22 May 2024 This is it. The day the chess sets and clocks are packed away. The tables unfolded with care to avoid barked knuckles. Chairs stacked neatly in the storage space by the filing cabinet. Lights out. The few members who attended the last night of the season trail slowly out of the club room following the instructi...

Send us Fan Mail Getting started in chess  Revision session No 2 The basic moves. These chess lessons in audio form are provided for parents and would-be chess beginners at the Northern Tennis club, Didsbury.  You will need a chess board and a set chess for the final puzzle.  It will help if you know how to pause and restart the audio.  First some advice about thinking before you move: A blunder i...

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Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom. Late May  2024 edition. @karinbeery’s post earlier this month asked for examples of disguised swear words. There was great response including these: Sadly I can’t trace the first contributor. Saw this post and loved it: what words do you use when you don't want to swear but want to express yourself? My mom always went with cripe. I'm a big fan of 'ch...

Send us Fan Mail General Election fever. Wet.wet.wet. Wednesday 22 May 2024 4.30pm Election fever has been mounting all day. News media report that the PM will announce a date for it in front of No 10, at 5pm. Polls have remained stubbornly predicting a serious loss for the Government for at least a year.  The weather remains as bleak as the political climate.  Inside, we are informed, the PM is c...

Send us Fan Mail Strictly come dentistry. The new sensational TV show The format. Contestants show off their dentistry skills before a live audience, and a panel of celebrity dentists. Votes from the panel and from viewer’s phone-in.  Each week, the candidates demonstrate their skills in selecting the correct tooth, executing their dentistry skills, with vivid in-mouth shots on giant screens, back...

Send us Fan Mail Dogs in Drag Sunday 19 May. The BBC breakfast show gave priority to a cringemaking report of an event called The Dogs’ Prom . The show revealed an infantilised treatment of dogs stripped of all dignity, and dressed up in gruesome costumes. I watched in horror at dogs dressed as cute children’s dolls were paraded to the rapturous approval of owners, and the presenters. My nausea wa...

Send us Fan Mail The chess championship of the future. The Armageddon wars. If it sounds like science-fiction, it’s probably because it is very much like the plot of a science-fiction blockbuster, set in the remote future, in a galaxy far from ours. A glimpse of how it may play out was seen in a remarkable competition involving most of the leading Chess grandmasters of the day, which ended this we...

Send us Fan Mail David Beckham’s body art has been the subject of numerous stories in the celebrity fanzines. It has even warranted a chapter in a serious academic study published in the Cambridge University Press book. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-companion-to-football/david-beckham-and-the-celebrity-phenomenon/4888485C73DC8B1F08594875880936E9 The Cambridge Companion to Foot...

Send us Fan Mail The Odd Couple: A case study of gaslighting? This podcast summarises a case study of the working relation of a broadcasting team and in particular of its two lead broadcasters whose names I have described as Kenneth and Barbie.  Their story reminds me of examples of teams from real life and fiction, including the one made famous in the film The Odd Couple, brilliantly played by Ja...

Send us Fan Mail @cleckylad Just sat with a coffee  Contemplating how unfair life can be  A case in point  You scrimp and scrape all year to buy Christmas presents for your kids  Then some fat bastard with a massive beard takes all the credit ... ... I suppose it's my own fault for marrying her 😯😯😯😋😋😜 Love the double punchline.  Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs a...

Send us Fan Mail The Invention of solitude, by Paul Auster I began an obituary of Paul Auster who died earlier this month, describing how I discovered this book among the disorder of my bookshelves. The slim volume turned up, apparently unread, fresh from purchase at a time before the instant gratification of an Amazon purchase was possible. In the days that followed, I have read the book initiall...

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Send us Fan Mail Wit Early May @TollytB Breaking: NASA to launch deep space satellite to say sorry to any aliens we may have offended. It's been named Apollo G. @deelomas A man and a woman were travelling on a train.  Woman: Every time you smile I feel like inviting you to my place.  Man: Awwww…are you single?  Woman: No, I’m a dentist… Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs...

Send us Fan Mail Friday 3 May 2024 Paul Auster, my newspaper tells me, died yesterday. So it must be true. But almost everything I know about the American author is shrouded in doubt.  I am almost sure I read his masterpiece the New York trilogy. I look, but can’t find it in the forest of my bookshelves. I only remember me as reader trying to make sense of three puzzling stories in which someone w...

Send us Fan Mail A sword attack, heroism, and knee-jerk exceptionalism.  Wednesday May 1 2024 Yesterday, an apparently maniacal sword attack in a peaceful London suburb resulted in the death of a teenage boy, and injuries to bystanders.  Media coverage was inevitably lurid, even by the standards of current reporting of state-sponsored bloodshed around the world.   Students of journalism would do w...

Send us Fan Mail A compilation of recent posts from social media sites. @revpaulwhite One or two of my correspondents on twitter have suggested that I preach the gospel here more often, rather than be political. So, today the first reading at mass was the story of Philip baptising the Ethiopian eunuch from Acts 8.  We therefore celebrate the fact that a non-binary, black, African was baptised into...

Send us Fan Mail I am possessed. How I became a slave to my new iPhone A cry from the heart. A short while ago, I was a reasonably functioning human being, capable of independent thought and action... then I acquired my new iPhone.  It replaced my ancient model, which was showing all the functions of a deteriorating piece of hardware. After great hesitation, I plunged into buying the Apple 15 phon...

Send us Fan Mail Hysteria from commentators as the Candidate's tournament ends with a win for 17 year old Indian prodigy Gukesh. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativityuk@gmail.com to sign up! Follow Tudor on Twitter @ Tudortweet Follow Tudor's blogs: everydaycreativity.uk leaderswe...