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Send us Fan Mail William Brown, Mrs Bott and the Bubble Gum mystery When school teacher Mr Naismith took on his duties as Chess Master at the Village Hall, he little expected to become embroiled in a mystery involving Mrs Bott, the dinner lady at his school and mother of Elisabeth Bott, close friend of William Brown, who were two of his chess pupils.  Master surveyed the scene ahead of him at the...

Send us Fan Mail Before you have a recognised grade you will have have a provisional grade which is explained below. Grades change as you play other graded players and the authenticated results are published regularly. Theses  estimates were provided by Hakon Strand, a chess correspondent and data analyst who likes to classify himself as a friend of the once and perhaps future chess world champion...

Send us Fan Mail How to speak chess. Beginners course, session 1 Chess has a language of its own. if you want to be a good chess player you will have to learn to read chess as it is described in chess books. Next, you need not just to read chess but speak it in a way that is understood by other chess players. In this course, you will learn a simple version of chess which will allow you to write re...

Send us Fan Mail Our Chess Club Social Event won by Tom Jones … It’s not unusual. The East  Cheshire Chess Club held its season-opening social event on Wednesday 27 September. As ever, the event was to produce some unexpected surprises.  The carefully planned six round rapid play tournament included a rehearsal for the new technology being used to arrange the draws for each round using on the much...

Send us Fan Mail Twitter (now known as X) wit and wisdom, late September, 2023 @Tudortweet BBC Chat show presenter not known for his false modesty “Question for our listeners. Which part of my anatomy did I graze so seriously I had to go to hospital for treatment?” Answer from a listener. “Your Super Ego?” @aled-job It's comedians who often tell you the truth in life. Here's Groucho Marx...

Send us Fan Mail Bridge over troubled buttocks. A ten minute programme for combating advanced muscular aches and pains.  A public health podcast by TudoRama. Hello. I’m Tudor Rickards. I want to talk to you today about a way to maintain agility to combat the advance of the aging process. It is based on three deceptively simple exercises which can be done in the time it takes to order a Uber for a...

Send us Fan Mail The Mill.  An example of everyday creativity in action A few years ago, a young journalist founded a creative initiative in regional journalism. He named it The Manchester Mill, capturing the history of Manchester’s contribution to the Industrial Revolution, as well as indicating an appropriate location for its founding premises.  A recent article in a regional business newsletter...

Send us Fan Mail Conversations at a crossing The worse traffic signals at a road crossing I know can be found in the suburban village of Bramhall, close to the TudoRama headquarters in Woodford. The signals are cruelly in favour of cars over pedestrians. Green crossing lights are as rare as Liverpool football supporters.  Throughout the day, the queues of citizens wait for the red light to change...

Send us Fan Mail The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tay. Who really killed the Princes in the Tower? Richard the third, according to our history books, backed up by William Shakespeare. But not according to the Richard 111 Society founded in 1924. Nor according to crime writer Josephine Tey, in her crime novel originally published in 1951. Tay never received the fame of Christie or Sayers, but her...

Send us Fan Mail Message to Mark Brown. ‘How are the dolphins?’ Dear Mark, It was great to get your recent email after so long since our last meeting.  How long? I retrieve a date from my unreliable memory Filofax as it being sometime in the eighties. Let’s say forty years, give or take a decade. Yes, we planned to meet, from time to time.  But perhaps inevitably, our good intentions were not enou...

Send us Fan Mail September 2023 @amrakunj My 11 year old just said to me, Mum, your shirt is very diaphanous. I don’t know whether to be impressed that he know what diaphanous means or change my shirt. 😳 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...

Send us Fan Mail Ignoble Prize winners of the year. A TudoRama report on unusual research findings. Every year, The Nobel Prize ceremonies are preceded by awards for unusual or even crazy research projects in the IgNobel prize awards. These awards were created in 1991 by Mark Abrahams, editor of the annals of improbable research. He has been the master of ceremonies at all award ceremonies since t...

Send us Fan Mail How to dispose of household trash safely when caught in a thunderstorm.  An educational podcast. This is an educational podcast explaining step by step how to dispose of household waste if you are caught unexpectedly in a torrential storm as took place in Woodford Garden Village around 3pm one afternoon this week, I was engaged in disposing of the week’s back numbers of the Guardi...

Send us Fan Mail Caissa, the Goddess of Chess My attention was caught this week by a reference in ' X, formally known as Twitter'. The post showed a facsimile of a page from the work of Howard Staunton, one of the greatest of English chess players of all time. The post, purporting to come from someone appearing as a reincarnation of Staunton, reads as follows: If you find the key to this...

Send us Fan Mail @deelomas My daughter: Will you do my maths homework for me?  Me: No love, it wouldn’t be right.  My daughter: Well, just do your best! @MaldenSaboteur Places where I get a data signal: • Gate of the Sun, Machu Picchu • Volcanic Caldera in Dodecanese • Out of sight of land in the middle of the Med. • A little spot on a dirt track next to an anthill in Porthcurno. And where not: Wi...

Send us Fan Mail Blairism without Tony Blair. Can Labour pull it off? September 6 2023 A few mischievous thoughts following Keir Starmer’s reshuffle of his shadow cabinet this week. Summer time ends with assorted floods, and raging fires wreaking untold carnage around the world. In England, our politicians return to Parliament. Conservative leader Rishi Sunak has been beset with a battalion of bru...

Send us Fan Mail Is this the end of the Didsbury Literary and Philosophical Society? The chairs grouped around the front of the Didsbury Deli stand empty and forlorn. The meeting place of the Didsbury Literary and Philosophical Society is deserted. Silence falls where once the voices of the Didsbury Lit & Phil members could be heard in deep discussion from early morning onward, most days of th...

Send us Fan Mail Say goodbye to Twitter, welcome to XWTF @Tudortweet Cracked it. The new acronym. XWTF. 'X', Was Twitter, Formerly Let’s hear it for #XWTF  And here’s the first wit and wisdom from #XWTF @lordbonkers We won't return the Elgin Marbles to Greece, but they are free to bid for them on eBay Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs comme...

Send us Fan Mail The Creative Process In Chess and Everyday Life.  A training podcast by Tudor Rickards This podcast is offered as an overview for aspiring chess players. I hope it is of particular interest to students of chess of all ages, and perhaps to a wider group of people interested in creativity in everyday life.  I’ll summarise the key points in time- honoured style at the start and in th...

Send us Fan Mail Most Twitter users continue to refer to themselves as Twitter users and retain use the old terms of tweets, Twitter, retweet, rather than the new-brand X-rated, Musk approved terminology. TudoRama will try to avoid confusion until some satisfactory future resolution is reached , by using the nostalgic older vocabulary... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and...

Send us Fan Mail England v Spain The Christmas Lottery in Spain, known as El Gordo, the fat one, believed to be the biggest in the world, with payouts approaching two and a half billion euros, but with ways of sharing prizes to community levels. If Spain wins today their Christmas lottery win will have come early. Sunday 20 August I have to search hard in the print media for detailed background an...

Send us Fan Mail England Lionesses v Australia’s Matildas.  A Sofa Drama Wednesday 17 August, 2023 A sofa saga as England’s Lionesses face up against Australia’s Matildas in the quarterfinal of Football’s World Cup. Matildas after the famous Ozzie folk song Waltzing Matilda. It seems that in Australia, Matilda Mania has its grip on that sport-loving country. All is ready in my solitary fanzone. My...

Send us Fan Mail Donald Trump and the Georgia “Witch Hunt”   Tuesday 15 August, 2023 With the reluctance of a strip tease show, a list of a criminal charges against Donald Trump appear on a Fulton County, Georgia website this afternoon local time, and is then whipped away. The court is still reaching its conclusions.  This is the criminal case being prepared by State Prosecutor Fani Willis, centre...

Send us Fan Mail Trending. Bibby Barge Bingo, a game played with up to five hundred players. Congratulations! You have been selected from over a hundred thousand applications we have received,  all seeking admission on our unique new floating accommodation, ton His Majesty’s luxury superbarge, the Bibby Stockholm.  You have won one of the first five hundred pioneering places. Another win. You luck...

Send us Fan Mail I had to check that the story is not a deep hoax. But apparently not, if we can accept The Tampa Bay Times as a reliable source, as reported by the political website Occupy Democrats. I quote their entire post published Wednesday 9 August, 2023:  Florida Republicans go completely off the deep end with their deranged MAGA book bannings as William Shakespeare gets banned by certain...