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Send us Fan Mail How long have we shared those kitchen times together? Snuggling close.  Where did you come from? The Liberty’s Store, long gone now, off Oxford Road, maybe. There were good times together  And bad  such as when a boiling dish once spat its magna over you. The stain remains. Even after a high temperature wash.  You didn’t mind  We didn’t care in those days about global warming. Sta...

Send us Fan Mail This is the private and unedited record of the Social Chess evening of a club famed for its good atmosphere, and social events as much as for its successes in the combative regional league.  As self-appointed publicity officer of the club, I have produced this semi-audible record of snatches of the highlights of the evening. It is not intended for further circulation beyond the ea...

Send us Fan Mail Why the Post Office needs creative thinking to rescue itself For over a month, we have listened to the heartbreaking stories of the postal executives humiliated and bankrupted. Countless interviews. Countless phone in discussions. A story with if not happy ending, a step forward in justice and commitment to further action. This morning for the first time I was triggered to realise...

Send us Fan Mail The wit and wisdom podcasts continue to win support of poddlers (TudoRama listeners). This Mid January episode captures the posts on Twitter from  regular contributor Dee Lomas, as well as a strong showing from new users of what I still think of as Twitter (Sorry, Elon). @TimeTripping Mario Puzo, the author of the Godfather books who’d also adapted them to film, had no idea what h...

Send us Fan Mail Ticket requests  this year for East Cheadle’s  social evenings have exceeded all expectations. Club members of good standing are complaining about the inconvenience of opening the evenings to prospective new members. Captain Tom recognised a member from Preston Pawn Pushers last time, who registered himself as a Mr Alex Puschkin which we found too late be a false name, who had pla...

Send us Fan Mail Cameron Norrie's loss to Alexander Zverev in the Australian Open Tennis tournament today reveals the gulf between the top players and the rest. The match was closely contesting over five sets before being resolved in a ‘long’ tiebreak. During the match, Zverev had the more powerful serve, which left Norrie repeatedly dropping behind, facing break points, but then clawing his...

Send us Fan Mail In preparation for my report on Emma Raducanu’s return to competitive tennis at the Australian Open, I retrieve the notes from my diary archives since she hit the sporting headlines in 2021 ... 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 Tw...

Send us Fan Mail Or, to be precise, the beeping noise continuously occurring as I drive to my regular pre-tennis coffee appointment in the northern territories.  This is not the first time the problem has occurred. The last time, three techno-savvy friends, Peter, Gordon, and Mike clustered around the car on my arrival, with useful advice. This amounted to recognition that the near-freezing temper...

Send us Fan Mail The curious case of the abandoned boots. Can you solve the puzzle? Truth or fiction?  Like all good detective stories, this one starts with a surprising discovery.  It began during the recent cold snap which allowed the wimpish Brits to have a new source of discussion about our fascinating weather conditions. I was braving the conditions on my regular morning shopping expedition t...

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Send us Fan Mail I feel hopelessly ill-equipped to address the ambitious goal the young author sets herself in this book. However, the writing engaged me with its combination of personal experiences of its author as an actor, gender expert for the United Nations, and highly promising wordsmith.[Other more informed comments welcome. TR] The book explores the nature of pioneering figures of black in...

Send us Fan Mail @Hepworthclare This is my New Year’s message to politicians of all stripes. " Last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await a new voice" (TS Eliot) @BenZeisloft The world would be a better place if more husbands led their wives. The world would be a better place if more wives submitted to their husbands. @NicholaJames007 I&a...

Send us Fan Mail Recently I settled down to watch a full-length film, The Big Four, based on an Agatha Christie novel. An added attraction, it starred David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, a role in which he consistently excels. To my disappointment, and then dismay, the film seemed distinctly unconvincing, as if it were some kind of inferior imitation of a work by Agatha Christie. The setting had moved...

Send us Fan Mail The Great Chess Battle of Cheadle’s Drift The gallant forces of East Cheadle’s Special Forces brigade engage the fearsome Wilmslow Warriors in their first battle of the new year. A report from the front line of the now deserted battlefield. Only an empty water bottle, and a crumpled score sheet abandoned at the field of battle, reveal the intense fighting that took place earlier h...

Send us Fan Mail I think so. My prediction is for a year in which at least the world begins to take the doomsday scenarios seriously enough to take belated efforts to avoid them. In short, there will be troubles ahead. But as the paean of hope by Irvin Berlin goes Before the fiddlers have fled Before they ask us to pay the bill And while we still have the chance Let's face the music and dance...

Send us Fan Mail Almost spoiler alert Although I tried to avoid reviewing sin of revealing too much, I touch on aspects of the story which might spoil the enjoyment for some people:  Reading the ‘do I buy’ decision. Cover pink as a rom com.  Turn to back cover, as, like many others do. The marketing is intended to capture a  punter’s  interest in a few sentences or plugs.  In this case both ‘Delic...

Send us Fan Mail My attempt to create briefer podcasts in keeping with the acceleration pace of modern life. I would like to acknowledge the new year message from master minimalism William .Thompson for the concept that often ‘less is more’ in communication theory. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everyd...

Send us Fan Mail End of Year Humour Pick-me-updated  Title should have been Pick-me-up, not  Pick-me-updated. Prescriptive text humour strikes again. @ChessVanDoom 2024 Chess Goals 1. Limit Rapid games to 2 per week, 15+10 only. 2. Analyze every Rapid game 3. 25,000 tactics solved 4. Complete 4 chessable courses (I start a bunch, but don't finish) 5. 50 coaching sessions 6. Play 4 OTB events...

Send us Fan Mail Chess player jokes tend to focus on clever but obsessed individuals, ignoring everyday matters, social conventions, etc. There is overlap with jokes about absent-minded professors. I’ve complied and invented a few, as a tribute to both these overlapping categories of person. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to ou...

Send us Fan Mail My Books on this list do not exist - but might in the future. The idea of the list  was inspired by a Twitter exchange with @GirlGiada. Giada seems to be a rather mysterious young lady with declared interests in music, animals, politics and strategy. I have subsequently discovered that Giada hails from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, famous for its spaghetti bolognese, and Bol...

Send us Fan Mail I have talked and written in other places about my pleasure in reading Melville’s classic Moby Dick. How the work at the time was a critical failure, mocked by the critics of the age (the 1850s).  For me, it is an astonishing work. It has left as great an impression on me as any book, ancient or modern, with which I can compare it. Although published in 1951, its imaginative prose...

Send us Fan Mail In what follows, I describe myself as having a rare experience which led me to connect with the thinking processes of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arguably the greatest musical composer of all time. (In a future note I will discuss the nature of modesty). I was later able to connect what happened to with much that has been written about with the moment of self awareness, often associa...

Send us Fan Mail Wit and Wisdom Christmas Edition, December 2023 @EvLenz What do you call a sad cup of coffee? A depresso. and … Q. How do you kill a Swedish band? A. Take them to the Abbatoir. and... What do you call the fear of being stuck in a chimney? CLAUStrophobia. @ShoabMolbi In the hospital car park I saw a sign saying ‘Thieves Operate Here’.  @revpaulwhite Can’t get used to the Queen’s Sp...

Send us Fan Mail Regular contributors continue to win accolades by being selected by the TudoRama panel of Pod-judges who wish to remain anonymous.  Special mention to Dee Lomas who seems to have found an eccentric vein of humour in domestic life (or maybe a vein of humour in an eccentric life.  Keep tweeting, Dee, we need your contributions ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, b...

Send us Fan Mail Artificial Intelligence and real creativity. I took part in an international workshop this week. The MBA students were asked to investigate the capacity of emerging AI systems for generating outcomes deemed creative   This podcast from my audio diary  records my initial impressions that the students had  shown their own creativity  as well as the potential and limitations of the A...