La Traviata

To Holland Park for La Traviata last night. The two Traviatas I remember are Franco Zeffirelli’ 1982 film and a 2013 production by the Met.

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Sasha’s Diary

Politics runs through Sasha Swire’s veins. Her father is Sir John Nott, Minister of Defence during the Falklands war, and her husband is Sir Hugo Swire, Conservative MP and Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as it then was.

Up at the Net

Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was thirty-three when this was published in Vanity Fair.

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Bermuda Shorts

Rules are rules. In Japan the climbing season for Mount Fuji is 1st July until 14th September. 

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Louis Brochet

I have been asked not to write this post. I will not compromise, I will give you the scoop.

Moo-vie Time

My first visit to a cinema since 2019 and my first visit to the Riverside Studios cinema since it re-opened.

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

Milkmaids’ Passage

There was a smutty joke at school. “What went up Judy’s Passage?” “Lupton’s Tower.” This passage connects The Green Park with a courtyard at the end of St James’s Place, previously a stable yard.