Going, Going, Gone The old joke is you find gentlemen trying to be auctioneers at Christie’s; at Sotheby’s it’s the other way round. So you may be surprised Sotheby’s, 1744, is the senior; Christie’s is an upstart founded in 1766.
Wine to Water I started drinking seriously half a century ago (1973) when I was posted to Belize in the Irish Guards.
Brief Encounter Walking along Barons Court Road with Bertie we were accosted by a bearded man in, I suppose, his 50s.
The Art of War Few books have as long a shelf life as Sun Tzu’s The Art of War written in the fifth century BC.
The Maeander Sometimes, the more often the better, posts here meander. You know what the word means but you may not know its origin.