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The King of Prussia

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35. I'm not.

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 02:50 AM

Jan 2022

I was ashamed to find that I read just 1 non-fiction book last year, out of 131 total reads - so I'm redressing the balance. Currently reading "Twenty Football Towns" by Steve Leach a tour round the lower reaches of English professional football (soccer). Before that it was "The Promise of Endless Summer: Cricket Lives from the Daily Telegraph". An anthology of cricketers' obituaries - it was wonderful. My favourite bit was Keith Miller's comment on today's sports people complaining of "pressure" - 'When athletes nowadays talk of pressure, they only reveal what they don't know of life. They've never had a Messerschmitt up their arse. That's pressure.'

We visited Grassington aka "Darrowby" on Saturday and went to the Stripey Badger bookshop, which doubles as the greengrocer's in "All Creatures Great & Small" - and I got four "Sergeant Cluff" mysteries. So "Sergeant Cluff goes fishing" is next up for me.

"Boris" Johnson and "Prince" Andrew have been keeping me angry this week. What a pair of c....

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