sentences:  Not a robust man, he had spells of depression, once spending some time in a psychiatric hospital.He also had a drink problem (which was the reason he was dropped from "Test Match Special").His reports for "The Times" often referred to his regular appearances at 'The Star' public house in High Littleton, where he lived, and reports of matches involving Gloucestershire invariably mentioned the GRIP – the Gloriously Red-headed Imperturbable Pamela, the barmaid in the main pavilion bar at the County Ground at Bristol.