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Send us Fan Mail My message is for inexperienced chess and tennis players. Maybe it will be of interest to those of riper age and greater experience as well. It is an introduction to further podcasts on the subject. The advice comes partly from my own painful attempts at improving my performance in each of the two games. It’s backed up by serious research into the nature of performance and develop...

Send us Fan Mail Twitter wit and humour. Obituary edition, July 2023 @NicholasTyrone @tomhillier @EvLenz @orridge_anna @dontbrexitfixit @deelomas @Hepworthclare @ChillaxBcn @RCdeWinter Comments on Brexit, Barbie, and a 1980s Business Guru during the last weeks before Twitter became X and the old brand name declared X tinct.  @NicholasTyrone My daughter is 11 and for kids her age, “Brexit” has beco...

Send us Fan Mail Trump’s latest and potentially most serious indictment on August 1st 2023, places far more than the former President of the United States on trial. Arguably, the whole political process is under severe scrutiny.  I examine the indictment as analysed by journalistic investigative reporter James Ball. He considers the persistence of belief in what the President calls the great steal...

Send us Fan Mail Where to begin? Where better than at a thinly-disguised hairdressing salon deep in the heart of leafy Cheshire. For reasons mostly due to demands on her time, my appointment with Mandy, my beauty consultant and coiffeuse, had been delayed beyond acceptable limits. I entered her establishment accompanied by my shaggy locks, rather like the famous etching by William Blake of the anc...

Send us Fan Mail Don Drake, an advertising executive in a remote office off Soho,  is struggling to reach a deadline for the Daily Truth a syndicated social media newspaper reaching around the world mostly on the dark web. His boss Harry is increasingly frustrated with his habit of last-minute rescue through his creative genius Come on Jon we need something to get the Greek inferno headlines off t...

Send us Fan Mail Submitted to Twitter by @RCdeWinter,   attributed to Jill Thomas Doyle I’m afraid you may need to play some of the examples more than once to enjoy the delightful humour and grammatical subtleties. A grammar book walks into a bar  * A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.   * A bar was walked into...

Send us Fan Mail Nigel Farage, Coutts, and a tale of biometric mishaps. Friday 21 July I am not alone in having a problem with my biometrics. Or, more precisely, the fancy system installed on my National Westminster banking app to protect me from a world crammed with scammers intent on electronic theft. By one of those coincidences, my irritation with Nat West this week coincided with that of the...

Send us Fan Mail Sunday 16 July My review as the tournament reaches a breathtaking finale. Wimbledon began with a tweet from Green MP Caroline Lucas objecting to the Tournament’s sponsorship by Barclays Bank, as an exercise in greenwashing.  As you will hear, it ended with a tweet from Louis Vuitton, for reasons which will eventually become clear. The first week is fast becoming a faded memory. Af...

Send us Fan Mail BBC news over the last 24 hours seems to be in a state of shock, in which rational decision-making has disappeared. It reminds me of the communication confusion I personally experienced at the time of the soviet invasion in Czechoslovakia, in August 1968. The current confusion was triggered a week ago by  an article in the Sun newspaper. The article had been in typical Sun hyperbo...

Send us Fan Mail I have mithered too long. Yesterday, I passed the very shop from which I bought my once and only favourite pair, so many years ago. Something stopped me entering. Cowardice? Maybe. A feeling of apprehension, certainly. No time in a busy schedule? Not really. I hurried past to the nearby car park and home. An email awaited me from Geraint ap Wrecsam, commenting on my earlier lament...

Send us Fan Mail Thursday 6 July 2023. Possibly a momentous day for social media. Elon Musk’s new plaything Twitter lurches from sick into to intensive care.  Mark Zuckerberg launches a rival platform Threads as part of his futuristic and gigantic global operation Meta Platforms Inc , (Meta for short). Meta sprang into life in 2021. It did do, according to its PR as a reaction to ‘ the company&apo...

Send us Fan Mail I have a pair of favoured trousers. They are brown corduroy, accidentally matching my favourite slip-on brown shoes.  I vaguely remember buying the trousers some years ago, and then having the length of their legs reduced to meet my personal requirements.  I noted recently that the cords they have become increasingly faded around the knees and seams.  They have received brutal tre...

Send us Fan Mail Wimbldonitis is a temporary  condition afflicting people as we approach the British Grand Slam of tennis, held at its fabled home of Wimbledon. Curiously, the illness does not affect ordinary club players throughout the county. The majority of these are completely immune, continuing with their regular social games, perhaps watching the highlight programmes on the BBC  in the eveni...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1. A nostalgic train journey I leave my retirement home in Woodford Garden village and take a rumbling suburban train into the metropolis of Manchester. I am in search of times gone by. In particular, I want to find out what happened to a place where I spent a large proportion of my working life ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs...

Send us Fan Mail June 2023 A trend I’ve noticed in twitter, this month. The has been a dramatic rise on the use of threads, multiple tweets creatively escaping the word limit. This seems to be changing the spirit of Twitter, but possibly for the better. Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!  Email everydaycreativity...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Jaffa Brown gives a reading of his Poem  Love Is... 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 leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com

Send us Fan Mail Top five June tweets. I selected five top tweets published in the first weeks of June,  Hope you enjoy them as much as I did.  In no particular order @TollytB @deelomas @MirandaKeeling @JoJoFromJerz @JonathanLevitt7  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...

Send us Fan Mail Improving your chess by benchmarking. These training instructions were provided for members of East Cheshire Chess Club. I hope they will also be of use to anyone interested in leaning about chess. This year we have been offering training sessions to beginners and club members interested in improving their skills. We have settled for a mix of short lecture sessions on club nights,...

Send us Fan Mail Thursday 15 June 2023 The political news of the day is the report of the enquiry finding the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson guilty of misleading Parliament, misleading the enquiry, and compounding his errors by vigorous denial of the legitimacy of the enquiry. In earlier podcasts, I noted the difficulties that politicians have in changing their minds.  Maybe they persist irra...

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Send us Fan Mail A day is a long time in politics. The resignation of Boris Johnson Friday 9 June 2023 There is an often repeated saying that a week is a long time in politics. Today, it seems as if the saying has to be speeded up to meet the pace of everyday life.  I have just posted my weekly newsletter which began: As I write, news is emerging of charges against former President Trump and forme...

Send us Fan Mail As I removed the washing from the tumbler drier, a faded dishcloth was retrieved. I read what was written with increasing admiration. The dishcloth had been made in Ireland.  It seems to have been acquired long ago. It captured a gently humorous tourist prayer. I have spared you the Irish accept ... Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs comme...

Send us Fan Mail Gentlemen. I note there are no ladies present. One immediate example of how my efforts as your publicity officer have failed miserably in at least in that one aspect. This is the seventh year in which I have held the honorary post of publicity officer of our Chess club. It is the first year I have been asked to provide a report of progress at our AGM. That is possibly because I wo...

Send us Fan Mail Some familiar tweeters in these recent gems from Twitter. @deelomas Thought for the day: What if that spider you just killed in your house had spent his entire life thinking that you were his roommate?  Ever think about that?  No. You only think about yourself… @gerriisalsoGigi There’s a really good yoga trick for headaches, it’s all about breathing in through one nostril then the...

Send us Fan Mail Setting up the board with the chequers in their correct position. Backgammon is played in competition between two people (other versions are possible, but let’s keep it simple. Also keeping it simple, I’m calling one ‘white’ and another ‘black’). I’m going to use the terms ‘bits’ as an alternative to chequers and meaning the same thing. I’m using the principle of symmetry to simpl...