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Farewell to a man

In the small hours of Wednesday morning I listened to a ‘live’ relay of the funeral service of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes taking place in the small town of Macksville in New South Wales as broadcast by on the Up All Night programme hosted by Rhod Sharp on Radio Five Live. Hughes, as [...]

December 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard : 64 Degrees Pimlico

The first thing I noticed about the new 64 Degrees in Cambridge St Pimlico was that there was no one there. There was just one other diner. It’s a much larger restaurant than the one in the Lanes in Brighton so have the owners over extended themselves? My guest who lives in the same street [...]

December 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

An M1 travel day

In my new role as unofficial National Rust traffic reporter, yesterday I had occasion to set off at 5.50am on a quest to visit a publisher in a little village not far from the city of Leicester, an expedition that necessarily involved travelling up the M1 motorway, of which I had been much warned [...]

December 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

A complex subject with no easy answers

I am prompted to write today by  a piece I spotted in the media on the difficult subject of rape – I use the word ‘difficult’ deliberately because, for me, there are fundamentally worthy but conflicting issues involved on both sides. All campaigners against rape tends to cite the facts [...]

December 2, 2014 // 0 Comments

An awkward topic

Life is finite – there’s no getting around it. I think it was in a self-written film scene that Woody Allen once quipped “I don’t fear death – I just don’t want to be there when it happens”, but it’s certainly the case that the approaching end of a life (and the surrounding issues [...]

November 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sir Nicky Winton

There are not many people that have heard that of Sir Nicholas Winton which is what he would have wanted. Yet this man saved 664 lives directly and 15000 indirectly and never told a soul: not even his wife or the people he saved. A successful stockbroker he took 2 weeks off in 1938 to organise the [...]

November 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard; Memories Of China

These days I seem to be spending half my life in restaurants who had their zenith 20 years ago. Yesterday I met some close friends of my late parents Bill and Sylvette Davis at Memories of China. This was once Ken Lo’s Memories of China, which says it all. Ken played tennis and ran his [...]

November 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

Investing in companies: the Tickler test

When it comes to investing in shares you get all manner of recommendations based on varying criteria. Some quote the price earnings ratio formula: the market value divided by the earnings per share. I do not want to get too technical here as I have probably lost the reader already, but the problem [...]

November 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

Last day blues

Yesterday our main engagement was lunch with my 92-year old godfather and family at their home in a suburb of Perth. I hadn’t visited it in forty-four years but the extraordinary thing is – even though I barely remembered it – you could tell, just by being there, that it [...]

November 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /The Ivy

Earlier this month I had lunch at La Caprice. Yesterday I went to another former Corbin/King restaurant taken over by Richard Caring. In its day the Ivy was just about the most in place in London. Such places never last: I can recall the great Italian restaurants of the sixties: la Terrazza, San [...]

November 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

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