Cocktail Time

Frederick, 5th Earl of Ickenham, is my favourite PG Wodehouse character and if you have the misfortune not to be acquainted with him where better to be introduced than by reading Cocktail Time, published in 1958. Then you can call him Uncle Fred.

Last Week of the Proms

The BBC splash out on some big hitters to play at the last week of the Proms. This year it is the Staatskapelle Berlin and their conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Dresden, under Christian Thielemann.

Back to Business

On Sunday I shared with you a bit about microbeads. This was something I had to read up on from scratch and my information came from research published on the Pacific Assets Trust website.

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Shopping

In a perfect world I’d do my supermarket shopping on-line but I don’t and here’s why.

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What Brexit Means, Everything You Need to Know

The CEO of Rolls-Royce made a fleeting appearance here a few months ago and was dubbed a Super Good Egg. The news spread (not far) and I’ve heard his wife sometimes calls him an SGE. Well, I like to keep an eye on SGEs to make sure they are staying up to the mark.

Edward VIII – Remember Him?

As we remember the Great War and the Somme there seems much to mourn and little to celebrate. However, fifty-three parishes are known as Thankful Villages.

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An Environmental Perspective

Thirty or so years ago I would throw rubbish like empty beer cans into the sea and leave spent cartridge cases on the ground. I was not unusual but now things are different.

These Boots Are Made for Walking

“Don’t wear brown shoes if you want to walk into City job” was a headline in The Times this week. It manages to be both completely wrong and entirely right.

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Boodle’s

Take care of yourself if you’re a partridge; the season opened in the UK yesterday. Parliament reconvenes next week and those London clubs that take a summer holiday have re-opened. I was a guest at Boodle’s which has pretty much everything you could ask for.

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Comfort Reading

In the autumn of 1972 I was invited to stay with Baron and Baroness von V-S on their estate in Germany. A Mercedes was at the station to meet me driven by a tweedy type who spoke no English. It dawned on me that this was not the Baron but his chauffeur. A parp on… Continue reading Comfort Reading