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An expedition to two National Trust properties

by William Byford in Blogs

Earlier this year the Boss and I joined the National Trust on a “family ticket”. For many years she had been a member of the organisation and occasional visitor to a [...]

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Restaurant Reviews

  • A la Colthard/Reform club

    August 25, 2023 // 0 Comments

    Recently Bob Tickler held a dinner at the Reform Club for me, his p/a Polly and her best friend Grania. Bob is most excited about joining the Reform Club. Although he was [...]

Arts

  • An expedition to two National Trust properties

    September 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

    Earlier this year the Boss and I joined the National Trust on a “family ticket”. For many years she had been a member of the organisation and occasional visitor to a [...]

Sport

  • Ireland 13 South Africa 8

    September 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

    This epic match more than matched the billing and hype and I share my colleague Derek Williams’ viewpoint that the Boks should be beaten. Their bomb squad of 7 forwards [...]

Britain

  • An expedition to two National Trust properties

    September 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

    Earlier this year the Boss and I joined the National Trust on a “family ticket”. For many years she had been a member of the organisation and occasional visitor to a [...]

World Affairs

  • An expedition to two National Trust properties

    September 24, 2023 // 0 Comments

    Earlier this year the Boss and I joined the National Trust on a “family ticket”. For many years she had been a member of the organisation and occasional visitor to a [...]

Men

  • Answered prayers/Duncan Hamilton

    September 19, 2023 // 0 Comments

    Duncan Hamilton is rightly acclaimed as one of our best – if not the best – sports biographer. It’s not a literary field crammed with talent. Most ghosted [...]

Film

  • Haunting in Venice

    September 20, 2023 // 0 Comments

    John Malkovich has done it once unsatisfactorily, Peter Ustinov twice and now Kenneth Branagh three times. Albert Finney, Orson Welles and Alfred Molina had one go. None of [...]

Women

  • Barbie: a sort of a movie review

    August 10, 2023 // 0 Comments

    In keeping with the traditions of this great organ – one of which is that any contributor can write upon any subject – I feel it incumbent upon me to begin [...]

Restaurant reviews

  • A la Colthard/Reform club

    August 25, 2023 // 0 Comments

    Recently Bob Tickler held a dinner at the Reform Club for me, his p/a Polly and her best friend Grania. Bob is most excited about joining the Reform Club. Although he was [...]