Well, I would just like to distance myself from the proposal that Lord's should be renamed the Menzies Milngavie III Cricket Ground. I can understand the appeal of such a name, and would like to thank those who made the proposal, but I feel that Lords is Lords, and should remain as such. Doviko sent off his stash of Zim $5 billion to some website he found about the possible renaming, in the hope of influencing the decision. I've told him that Zim dollars are worthless nowadays, but he'd like it back anyway because a brick of notes makes quite good kindling.
Last week the Smondays lived up to their name. I didn't receive The Sunday Times until Wednesday. I think a London flight to Lilongwe was cancelled, or something. Anyway, when the paper did arrive, I noticed an item about Richard Dunn. In May 1976 Richard Dunn fought Muhammad Ali for the world boxing championship. The first part of the fight is embedded below. Dunn does Ok for the first three rounds. Ali hurts him in the second round, but he comes back at Ali.
The second part of the fight is shown below. In the fourth round, Dunn goes down three times. In the fifth, he's down twice more, the last time to a wind-up punch by Ali. Dunn's quote in the Times last week was "I'd taken his best shots. I'd been down five times, true. But what people forget is, I got up five times. I thought I could go on and do some damage." I say! What an indomitable spirit! Dunn was later knocked out by Joe Bugner - and I see that Joe is now one of the celebs in the jungle!
We were invited round to Henry Dixon's house the other night. He lives half way up the plateau. Seen a bit of action over the years, so he has. Hands shake a bit nowadays, but his stories of the good old days up in Fort Portal are something else.
Here's a snap of his trophy room. Bit over the top, I thought.

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