It's great for a veteran like me to look out of the commentary box window and see a darting 'great' rolling back the years.
Dennis Priestley is 55-years-old and there is the odd fleck of white in the jet black hair but in the first set against local lad Keith Rooney was vintage Dennis of a decade ago. Читать далее...
I spent the morning talking to the Daily Telegraph about my unique routine of vocal relaxation ahead of another long night’s commentary.
They were fascinated by my ‘Musical Yawn’, ‘Singing Sinus’ and ‘Puffing Pilates’ - all designed to loosen the old tubes and clear the breathing! Читать далее...
There were very good omens on my plane ride over from rainy Leeds to the sunshine of Dublin harbour. The Wicklow mountains were emerald green in the clouds beyond Saggart church.
Our commentary team was joined by former world number one Rod Harrington, who had particular interest in the “clutch hitting” of his protégé, World No.1Colin Lloyd. Читать далее...
Greetings fans and fanesses from an ebullient Geordie Lip, hot back from a three week holiday in Dixieland, U.S.A, land of crimson myrtle blossom, Po’ Boy shrimp sandwiches and, of course, muscle-rippling keep fit obsessives. Which brings me to my emerald green pilates mat… Читать далее...
I write this as the first cool winds of autumn blow across my lined brow and the neat rows of my leek patch, planted like that of my dad in rich northern mulch, are waiting to bloom into full white and sea-green splendour… Читать далее...