Thursday 22 March 1973: Outwell
Speech day. Balls! I may suspend this diary
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The Tuesday-Thursday Tontine
‘A tontine only makes any sense in times of war or plague.’
So are three friends told, when a fourth’s will binds them in a tontine, a legacy payable only to the last of them to follow him in death, the last man standing. None of them want the money on those terms: How good will all the beer in the world taste over the dead bodies of your best mates? Within months COVID-19 is everywhere. Their friend also leaves a widow and daughter.
The Tuesday-Thursday gang of a Midlands golf club provides the leading players and chorus in the turbulent lives, loves, lock-ins, lockdowns and losses of old men (and some women) behaving badly over the period from 2017 to 2025.
After sometimes comic scenes of modern sexual manners and misadventures, things take a darker turn. Apart from illness, leading characters face issues including abortion, dementia, murder, sexual abuse and suicide. Who will pass this fierce examination of relationships between baby boomers and with their previous and succeeding generations, with hopes of renewal in a calmer and brighter future?
'Golf is just a backdrop to the boozy and amorous adventures of 3 old boys - legends in their own lunchtime.
Their journey may be a a bit "red meat" for some but serious life experiences are covered along the way. Not always with happy endings for our roguish band of brothers.
Includes a meticulous account of the COVID period evoking vivid memories of those extraordinary times.'
Five star Amazon review from A J Gambles
News and Updates
Posted on 18 March, 2026
Seventeen in Salzburg – Dave Daze Tuesday 8 August 1973
Among all the sights of Salzburg, Hans and I failed to see Last Tango in Paris. 4.30 aufgestanden nach Salzburg gegangen konnten letzten Tango leider …
Posted on 22 February, 2026
Summer Daze 1981
Ah, those days when you could smoke wherever and whenever you wanted without fear or reproach; when you could drink as much as you liked …
Posted on 30 November, 2025
Meet the Author 2025 – ‘blunt, witty, and very human!’
I always take advantage of SilverWood Books interview feature, with different things to say (I hope) for each of my five published works to date. …