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Doing the Splits

If you hold shares in a personal favourite of mine, Personal Assets, you are in for a big surprise on Monday.

The Feudal Spirit

I’m re-reading Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, published in 1954.

Wodehouse in the Springtime

George Dennis Martin was an architect most of whose work is in London but one of his most spectacular commissions is The Majestic Hotel in Harrogate.

What Presents Did You Get?

As Bertie is only two he got up early to open his presents. Sixty years ago I did the same.

The Dubliners

It’s a different country. I popped into the Shelbourne to use the wifi and thought I’d have a drink. “Coffee?”

A Fruity Function

“Pongo had assured me … this birthday binge … was to be on a scale calculated to stagger humanity.” (Right Ho Jeeves, PG Wodehouse)

Mastermind

Nothing is Simple in Wodehouse (by Tong Ring) will I expect be proven at 7.30 this evening on BBC 2.

If you read Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack or live in Wagga Wagga you will remember James (“Jim”) Higgs, OAM. He is a leg spinner who played for Australia in twenty-two Test matches. The late, great and lamented Murray Hedgcock would have known him.

May Gleanings

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. (Ode on Solitude, Alexander Pope) At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve… Continue reading May Gleanings

Vale, Murray Hedgcock

Murray Hedgcock, who died last week aged ninety, was the best of good eggs.

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