The King’s Birthday Parade

Buckingham Palace 14th June, 2025 His Majesty was present at The King’s Birthday Parade on Horse Guards Parade this morning at which The King’s Colour of Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards was Trooped. The King was accompanied by The Queen (Colonel, Grenadier Guards), The Duke of Edinburgh (Colonel, Scots Guards), The Prince of Wales (Colonel,… Continue reading The King’s Birthday Parade

Better Bonkers

Hello, welcome back to Blog Bellew after the intermission. Normal service will be resumed soon. It has not been a good time for the author; two bad falls, both times knocked out and waking up in pools of blood. After the second fall I went to hospital for a brain scan, etc. So brain bruised… Continue reading Better Bonkers

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Buy Back?

I own shares in a few companies that buy back their own shares, notably Personal Assets Trust, RIT and MP Evans.

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The King’s Horses

  It’s the Major General’s inspection in Hyde Park today. The Major General is James Bowder, a Grenadier. Yesterday they were rehearsing. But I must digress.

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Civilisation: A Personal View

John Betjeman described him as “the man who made the best telly you’ve ever seen”. Kenneth Clark was just three years older than JB (KC,born 1903) and just as good a performer in front of a TV camera.

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Pitzhanger

Sometimes it’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive, my experience on Saturday morning. Eight stops to Ealing Broadway with Maigret to distract me; a destination I had hitherto not visited. Not worth a detour, as Michelin doesn’t say.

Maigret

I have read a few Maigret books a long time ago. There were none on my shelves until I bought this one.

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Accidental Journey

Loewenstein, Max Otto Ludwig. See Lynton, Mark Oliver Lawrence. (The London Gazette, 25th April 1947)