by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jan 14, 2019 | Sport, Talking Points
MOMENT IN THE SUN: OLDER WOMEN I’m very happy to report that this has been a great week for women over fifty. First I want to applaud the resilience and courage of Anna Soubry MP (62). In the face of daily acts of intimidation from socially frustrated men who think...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Dec 2, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
MOMENT IN THE SUN: NOEL EDMONDS! I have of late been most distracted. My head has been filled with an unexpected admiration for Noel Edmonds. Noel Edmonds. Lover of helicopter flight, beard dye and cosmic ordering. This will be a shock to those who have seen my show,...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jul 8, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
Monday 23rd June 1986 was a day I remember well. The atmosphere at school was tense. It trembled with rage, disappointment and righteous indignation. It was the day after the England-Argentina match in which Maradona discovered he was channelling God through his fist....
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Jun 30, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
Wimbledon starts on Monday. Time to dust off that interest in tennis and practise the trickier players’ names, ready to casually drop them into conversation at parties and round the water cooler at work. I loved watching the tennis as a teenager. For quite a while my...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Feb 25, 2018 | Entertainment, Sport
A couple of weeks ago, the rugby commentator Ian Robertson announced that he is retiring. News like this would not normally prompt so much as a shrug from me. Murray Walker, John Motson, John McCririck all left our TV screens and their absence has not touched me. But...
by Fortysomething Fan Girl | Aug 6, 2017 | Health, Sport
There have been many anniversaries of note in 2017: 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death 100th anniversary of the Battle of Passchendaele 75th anniversary of Desert Island Discs 50 anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis...
