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Is our project any good (and P.S. what is it anyway?)

For nearly four years now, with others, I have been working upon a small WW1 research project based around an event that took place behind British lines on the Western Front in the spring of 1915. At the outset, the original fantasy was that the fruits of these labours – assuming, of course, that [...]

April 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard : Kazan Wilton Road.

  I have a problem with Mediterranean cuisine, by which I mean Greek, Turkish and Levantine – namely, its lack of range and of diversity of restaurant. French food, particularly in France, has its grand foodie establishments; the brasserie ; the neighbourhood restaurant and – at [...]

April 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Home truths

I think I’ve discovered the reason for my recent lack of success with the opposite sex, courtesy of an article featuring on the website of the Daily Mail this morning – see here – YOU HAVE JUST 12 MINUTES TO IMPRESS ON A DATE When I reached the bottom of the page, there was a list of the top [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Modern life

Something slightly unusual happened to me yesterday. Having set off first thing to take my car to my local ‘little man with a garage’ for its annual MOT, I returned home (using my Freedom travel pass on a bus) and then set about occupying myself until I received the call to go and collect it. [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Boring but important

It’s tough to make any article on pensions interesting, but I’m going to try by relating a cautionary tale. A  friend of mine, who just reached 60, was minded to take his pension which was guaranteed by the provider at 10% of the fund. This seemed too good to be true and like most [...]

April 18, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sending a package

I had an encounter with the modern world yesterday and, on balance, came out roughly honours even. Son Barry, whom my avid readers may remember is a yachtsman, is currently based in Poland for a refit, pending continuation of his 16-month-and-counting voyage. The next stop-off had been intended as [...]

April 16, 2014 // 0 Comments

Remorse is also a dish best served cold

As a reasonable and logical lady, I naturally doff my hat to the notion that all men are innocent until proven guilty. I also acknowledge that, not having been in court to actually see the evidence being given, I probably have little basis upon which to make judgements about the key participants [...]

April 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

What’s so wrong about showing people as they are?

There is a minor media storm currently doing the rounds about the Facebook group entitled Women Who Eat On Tubes. [I should add here that – having long ago given up trying to be ‘up to date’ or technologically literate – I am not 100% sure what a Facebook group is and in any event have [...]

April 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

A Tale of Two Solicitors

Yesterday I had to visit the offices of two solicitors I engage. The first was the firm of Bodgers in Holborn, very much a firm of and for the landed aristocracy. I was therefore surprised to see, amongst the Country Life and The Lady, the Jewish Chronicle in the various  journals and newspapers [...]

April 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Great Business Rate Scandal

A new cafe has opened up in Marylebone near my residence in  Westminster. It’s owned by an Oriental couple and you can sense on visiting how hard they are trying to make their business successful.  It’s situated next to Pret but many prefer a  family type concern to a  formulaic [...]

April 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

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