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A La Colthard – Mr A Wong

A friend of mine, a Portuguese patissier of international renown , whose custardos are to die for accompanied and recommended me to this restaurant as a Chinese that redefined and pushed back the frontiers. It’s in Wilton Road next to Gran Paradiso as beloved by Tory politicians as Gay Hussar [...]

November 15, 2013 // 0 Comments

McCririck and the knacker’s yard

John McCririck, the former Channel Four racing pundit – and now losing employment tribunal ‘age discrimination’ litigant – is an acquired taste for most of us.  A deliberate eccentric in fashion sense, attitude and the social niceties, over the past three decades he had carved a [...]

November 14, 2013 // 0 Comments

HOW DID IT GO AGAIN …?

We learned this week that the older generation can maintain a brighter outlook on life in general by wallowing in nostalgia. A study by researchers at the University of Southampton, published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, has concluded that those who are encouraged, for [...]

November 14, 2013 // 0 Comments

ENGLAND 32 CANADA 3

Both women’s rugby internationals I have witnessed in the flesh have been staged at the Twickenham Stoop. Three years ago, the atmosphere was special, and the place rocking nearly an hour before kick-off, when New Zealand prevailed by the margin of 13-10 over England in the 2010 Rugby World Cup [...]

November 14, 2013 // 0 Comments

A la Coulthard – 28/50

I was back at 28/50. I have already reviewed this restaurant so I will only say its maintaining its high standards of service and cuisine. General Manager Ed Newman joined us and we had a good old gossip on the restaurant scene. I spoke of the outstanding greeting of Tabby at the London Edition. Ed [...]

November 14, 2013 // 0 Comments

TAKING THE NEEDLE

So a British national treasure, veteran broadcaster David Dimbleby, has recently acquired his first tattoo at the age of 75 – is this the end of Western civilisation as we know it? Hardly. Even historical figures such as Winston Churchill, US President Theodore Roosevelt, Dorothy Parker and [...]

November 13, 2013 // 0 Comments

WOMEN: THIS WEEK’S ISSUES OF THE MOMENT

Following our feature on the latest ‘side-bum’ fashion trend earlier this week, here’s an extended review of similar fads by Emine Sander in THE GUARDIAN Today we also feature a link to an article by Josephine Fairley on ‘wardrobing’ in the DAILY [...]

November 12, 2013 // 0 Comments

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BACK PAIN? IT’S NOTHING TO WRITE HOME ABOUT

There’s been a story in the media this week about a survey of 2,056 adults conducted for – guess what? – a back pain care product specialist, which reveals that more than 18 million people in the UK suffer from back pain, and 14% of them report that they’ve had to give up having sex because [...]

November 12, 2013 // 0 Comments

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REMEMBRANCE DAY IN REGENTS PARK

I was up in London on a bright autumnal Sunday in Regents Park for an article I was commissioned to write for a Japanese on line tourist magazine. My theme was that only London has such a plethora of parks in its centre. Fairly routine stuff so I was searching for an angle. In the inner circle I [...]

November 11, 2013 // 0 Comments

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A TIME AND A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING – MAYBE

There’s a right way and a wrong way of doing most things, and one of the rites of passage for ladies of a certain age is learning to judge when keeping on trend is just no longer worth the candle. Whether sporting beyond-shoulder-length hair, jeans at functions when flanked by your teenage [...]

November 9, 2013 // 0 Comments

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