In the 1970s our social orbit expanded to include a small but highly specialised group of expatriates in Hong Kong. They were footballers, who delighted local crowds in the glory days of the game and […]
I fell in love with the longbow on the battlefield near Hastings where the Norman invaders settled the course of English history in 1066. I had turned up in 1989, a little after the event, […]
I don’t know much about golf, but when Adam Scott won the US Masters in 2013 I did know that he would have the honour of choosing the menu for the following year’s Champions Dinner. A cultural […]
Back in 1975 Hunter S. Thompson took in an historic game of cricket at the old Hong Kong Cricket Club and lost ten bucks to my father Jack Spackman. I was 12 years old when […]
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