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From a commercial point of view it seems to me that the new owner of the Sir Christopher Wren hotel has a difficult decision. An old main building needs expensive refurbishment which you would do out of season but with less revenues from bookings or events. Still it was convenient for Heathrow and [...]

February 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: all aboard

  The National Rust travelling quartet of Bob Tickler, Alice Mansfield, Nancy Bright Thompson and myself are Rome bound for a short tour of Michelangelo’s works in the Eternal City in which our very own Stefano is one of the lecturers. Because of an early flight from Heathrow today we [...]

February 24, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Camelford Arms

Shamefully I have never reviewed any Brighton pubs which offer good value at reasonable prices. Yesterday I had Sunday lunch at the Camelford Arms in Camelford Street in the fashionable Kemp Town area. I must immediately declare a personal interest here as the owners Alistair and Tony are good [...]

February 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

Pause for thought

Over the weekend, roughly two and a half years since my sudden arrival of my hip’s osteoarthritis, a copy of a letter from my intended surgeon to my GP flopped through my letter box onto the corridor floor. It contained references such as ‘he limps, gets pain most of the time and has difficulty [...]

February 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / Marcus at the Berkeley

I remember the Berkeley in the eighties as a sort of Savoy Grill where the great and the good gathered. The food was reliable, the service good and the comfort level high. It epitomised top quality hotel dining. Since that time the restaurant has had various names, cuisines and identities but it [...]

February 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not waving but drowning (again)

I should no doubt begin by apologising for returning to a subject that I have blogged about previously, but that done, I am going to proceed anyway. One of the bug-bears of life for anyone of mature years is modern technology. I am perhaps not best placed to complain because technology and I have [...]

February 17, 2016 // 0 Comments

It’s all about how you occupy your time

The truth is that nothing ages you more than having kids – or is it rather that the act of having kids becomes a constant reminder of ‘tempus fugit’ as they grow up into adulthood? Whilst there’s an eternal truth in the adage that we instinctively tend to feel eighteen inside whatever our [...]

February 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

The delicate art of making a fuss

It’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and, since I have something of an aversion to enforced jollity – for example, the last time I recall being up to see in the New Year in was the Millennium and that shouldn’t really count as I’d actually gone to bed shortly before 8.00pm and found myself [...]

February 13, 2016 // 0 Comments

And so it comes to this (again)

When big issues are involved, whether you’re talking national/political things like an ‘In/Out’ EU Referendum or a NHS junior doctor’s dispute, it’s jolly hard for we non-participants on the side-lines to understand properly the protagonists’ respective arguments, still less the [...]

February 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

I suppose you cannot fight the inevitable

One of the first things I do upon waking each day is to tour the newspaper websites in order to familiarise myself with what’s going on in the world since I last looked. Sometimes this is a fascinating exercise and sometimes, to one degree or another, it is a sobering one. Today it was a case of [...]

February 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

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