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Don't know if this was mentioned on the other thread, but he turned up out of the blue in the directors' school room after the Hull game a couple of seasons ago. John Prescot was there receiving adulation, pie and chips for (apparently) giving us the Falmer consent. Then Sir N wandered in with...

Be a bit wary of the Caribbean in the autumn - it's prime hurricane season and though they're quite interesting experiences for adults, they're not so great for 8-month olds... (Huricane Dean is approaching the BVIs this very morning - could be just a scouting mission, I suppose).

Wasn't there a head master somewhere called Ivor Shore-Twillie?

Odd - last Sunday, getting away and onto a train back to central London was dead easy. OK, the crowd was only 60k and it was tipping down, so people kept moving, but the only blockages were the mounted policemen. At the MillStad after our play-off final, the queues trying to get into the...

Went there last Sunday for the B'pool/Yeovil game. Don't really see how you can give a huge, modern, safety-conscious stadium much atmosphere. They could sort out the beer pouring machines though, which are cunningly designed to pour six pints at a time but then have no facility for extracting...

Didn't Baadiff sign some players on loan a couple of years ago - and then immediately apply to the Football League for a grant to help pay their wages? That deserves a points deduction...

Just back in sunny Clapham from Lord's. Liddle looks quickish but not good enough to trouble Cook and Loudon. Wright looks to have added a few MPH since last year but's still a bit wild. Mushi looks great carrying the drinks. Easy wicket; bad toss to lose.

I began going to the Goldstone in the mid-60s and remember him as being a good, solid, professional manager. Interesting point though - if you read the "where are they now" type newspaper articles about the good and high-profile players from the 70s and 80s, they all ended up doing pretty menial...

To answer the original question ... Udimore is on the road between Broad Oak and Rye on the B2089. The entrance to the cricket ground is 100 yards or so after the King's Head pub on the right if you're going towards Rye. Very pretty ground, particularly when the apple trees are in blossom.

In the mood? Just spent part of the day in Havana organising a cricket tour to Cuba next March. Suppose I must be...

Yup - I'd go for the CityInn Westminster too. Or the new Hilton Tower Bridge on the south bank - though don't expect to get a view of the bridge. Negotiate hard: Jan/Feb are funereal in the hotle industry so you should get a good rate...

I'm with Dwayne. Good spot, particularly for lunch when it's not all that expensive. But I do have a mate who eats there at least once a week and he's just had a quintuple heart by-pass. Possibly no connection... (He's fine; thanks for asking).

Just bear in mind that everything happens much later in Madrid than in Barcelona. Restaurants really don't want to see you before 10pm and the city's worst traffic jams tend to be at about 4am. The area around the Plaza Santa Anna and just north of it is great for bars (Viva Madrid and Los...

Fred Goodwin. Yawn.

Mark Beeney - eternal thanks to Howard Wilkinson (and, to be fair, Leeds United). The VAT man was slavering at the door as that sale went through...

Neville Scott's report in The Times: ..."there was something a shade too pat about proceedings here. Both sides reached 350 and lost the requisite wickets, achieving precisely their strategic ends". Funny, that.

Pavilion. Didn't know one could sit anywhere else. Between the pimms, I'll gently humm along to GOSBTS...

Don't think that's a very fair comparison, Southover Street. If Scotland had allowed itself to be over-run by Al-Qaeda and had turned a blind eye to them importing 30,000 missiles to Edinburgh for the specific purpose of firing them at Leeds (not such a bad idea, I suppose) AND Al-Qaeda needed...

Yes - it's impossible not to feel sorry for the Lebanese but they have just rolled over and allowed their country to be over-run by Hezbollah. 3,000 missiles already fired into Israel? Thought to be only 10% of their stockpile? So the Lebanese have allowed 30,000 missiles to be brought into...

Good God - for a site designed solely for the abuse of Leyton Orient supporters, this is all getting terribly topical. Last week, the US's treatment of Cuba; this week, Hezbollah... Well, last night I spent an hour at a party in Havana arguing with an Frenchman about what's going on in Lebanon...