Articles by Robert Tickler

Yesterday I travelled up to London for a busy day with my tailor, art dealer and catching up with some old friends. I took the train up from the coast but decided to take a car back as I was somewhat overladen. The hire car driver was a devout muslim. Having arrived half an hour late, I was taken [...]

My white dinner jacket is becoming a little dog-eared and, with Glyndebourne coming up, soon this needs addressing. For many years now, Kilgour French and Stanbury of Savile Row have served me well as tailors but they could not prepare something for next week . So I decided to visits Moss Bros at [...]

The implication of Lord Waldegrave and Andrew Mitchell in a tax scheme based on film finance has attracted much publicity. I am anxious not, like the press, to say tax avoidance as I know people who have participated in it and the tax demands are being contested. Recently I have been involved as an [...]

My travails with installation of utilities and services continue… Southern Water required a meter reading. I had no idea where the meters are. Barclays Internet enrolment rejected both my new and old post code. Barclays stockbrokers required identity proof of identity as  I am a new owner. [...]

Yesterday I invited my tutor at St Pauls for lunch at English’s in the Lanes in Brighton. In the open air on the terrace at my favourite table (92) there are few better places to eat. The old school has been rocked by scandal. This is not strictly true, as most of the scandals emanate from [...]

It’s a strange fact of life that you wait for months for news but it often arrives when you are least prepared for it. I have been involved for over a year in an Executor’s sale of property which proved something of a saga . It was scheduled to complete yesterday, but my attitude was I [...]