described here<\/a> give me great hope for old Blighty. It is a \u2018Chaps Olympics\u2019 founded for fellows who have no interest in sport and lament the horrible culture of our age. Check it out and \u2018ave a bit of a laff.\u2019 It\u2019s daffy, eccentric, English humor at it\u2019s best.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From time to time I have a little moan of grief on this blog about what England has come to.\u00a0 Let me put on the record that events like the one pictured and\u00a0described here give me great hope for old Blighty. It is a \u2018Chaps Olympics\u2019 founded for fellows who have no interest in sport […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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