American Art

Three years ago Christo’s mastaba floated majestically, magically, colourfully and enchantingly on the Serpentine.

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Local Heroine

A first floor flat at 4 Glazbury Road was sold for £760,000 in 2018. Mr and Mrs S Pilling, who lived there when it was a house more than a century ago would be surprised.

The Pleasure Principle

Emboldened by a degree in Psychology (BA, Dunelm, 1976) I have been musing on the Pleasure Principle coined by Sigmund Freud.

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August Gleanings

August is the cruelest month to gather gleanings, so a smaller than usual harvest.

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Mastermind

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

Pomeranian or Petrus?

Aren’t Sundays a sod? Robert bugs out to play tennis, Christopher gets sozzled and I twiddle my paws.

Gandamack Lodge

Inexplicably I forgot to mention Gandamack Lodge when I wrote about eccentric hotels in 2016: Room With a View.

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You Must Be Joking

If you are reading this you shouldn’t. You should go to YouTube and search for You Must Be Joking (b&w, 1965, Michael Winner).

Splash Out

Would you want your wife or servants to see you in a car like this?