Month: July 2015

The Price of Fish

Pictures never lie but they can mislead. I am not haggling over the price, just the quantity. I only wanted a couple so as not to stink out the compartment.

Too Big To Fail?

On a wet day last week I was taken by a former colleague for lunch. in a basement restaurant that I picked because it brought back memories

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Bounce

  I love looking at the Bounce Rate for visitors to this site. I don’t have a clue what it means but it reminds me of

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This Post is Potty

I was taught pottery (the posh word is ceramics now) at school by Gordon Baldwin and over the years have seen his work in galleries, at The Ashmolean Museum and The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich.

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Serious Money

An American reader puts down his copy of The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham and, after taking  a sip or two from a glass of Riesling, writes to remind me

Nombre de Vingt-Quatre

Last weekend BBC Radio 4 broadcast Air-Force One a play about the events immediately after John F Kennedy’s assassination on 22nd November, 1963. If you are my age you will remember where you were when you heard the news.

All About You and Heaven

Last week veteran BBC cricket commentator, Jonathan Agnew, was reprimanded for not wearing a tie when making a broadcast from the pavilion at Lord’s. This prompted Times journalist and P G Wodehouse Society member, Patrick Kidd, to recall a Wodehouse short story in which Lord Plumpton thinks he is being stung by wasps. His companion… Continue reading All About You and Heaven

Bricks, Money and ‘Phones

The reconstructed Berliner Schloss, referred to a couple of days ago in the post headed Athens 1931, is run by an organisation called the Humboldt Forum. Hence the Humboldt Box, that houses the exhibition about the project. It will have our Neil MacGregor as a Gründungsintendantenor or founding director.