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Who are the stakeholders?

There was much coverage yesterday of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report that the cost of child care is putting some families below the minimum wage. This follows hard on the comments of Andrea Leadsom that because of her children she is more of a stakeholder in society than Theresa May. I found [...]

July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Le nozze di Figaro /Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is so efficiently run and the production values so high you are pretty much guaranteed an enjoyable evening – though you pay for it. For my regular companion this is her treat, which she calls her holiday. So I lay on the Ritz with a limo service, champagne and picnic lakeside in [...]

July 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Better check it out?

One of the difficulties of the ageing process is assessing whether one has a serious ailment or a transient meaningless pain. Recently I noted a sharpish intermittent pain above the heart. Was this the start of a coronary or nothing of consequence?  Had a life of rich food clogging up the arteries [...]

July 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

More internet exasperation

On my return from Cornwall I received a letter from the Single Discount Review Team of my local council querying my single occupation. I will admit to the odd staying guest but as far as I was aware the only two occupants were and are myself and my cat. I put this in the Polly Pile for her to deal [...]

June 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A Family Occasion

Yesterday I went to 2 family celebrations: the first was a form of orthodox Jewish cocktail party, normally after the religious service called a kiddish, given by my niece to celebrate her latest child and a smaller family lunch given by the wife of my nephew. A big difference between Gentiles [...]

June 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

Life on the ocean wave

My Godson Jamie yesterday had his much anticipated mackerel birthday fishing trip. He had been looking forward to this for ages but so volatile has been the weather that I worried it may be adjourned. The old boy who sold the ticket and might have benefited from a  course in customer service did [...]

June 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Wrapping up

I would like to initiate a debate – along the lines of the tv v attendance one – on whether it’s better to stay at home or take a British holiday. There are the variables of weather as in our week we only had one rainless day in seven. For all the beauty of Pridmouth Cove the [...]

June 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

A great man remembered

Yesterday at a charity lunch the host on my table was Brook Land. Brook as at the same school as me and, in introducing him to an old friend from the same school who is a keen lover of the theatre, I mentioned that Brook’s father David Land was an eminent impresario of his or any day. So [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Cassius

Muhammad Ali touched us all. I was fortunate to be old enough to witness his early career after the Rome Olympiad. His two fights with Henry Cooper and one with Brian London ( “I knew he was fast but I did not  know he was greased lightening”) endeared him to Britian and this feeling [...]

June 5, 2016 // 0 Comments

A commemoration in Paris

Yesterday I went to Paris for the stone setting of my uncle Albert buried in Montparnasse Cemetery. I took the Eurostar and was met by an old friend Monique. Unlike the UK this was a mixed religious cemetery and Uncle Albert was interred in a Jewish section. I noted near him a mausoleum for la [...]

May 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

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