ARM Holdings is a UK high-tech company founded in Cambridge about twenty-five years ago. They design widgets, tiny widgets, called microchips, even smaller than the ones we eat when dieting. Some readers have been shareholders, not me. I couldn’t because it broke two of my investment rules: I didn’t understand their business model and the… Continue reading ARM Wrestling
Month: July 2016
Lunchtime Prom
First Slice Your Cookbook
The Earldom of Moray, pronounced “Murray” like the tennis player, is an ancient Scottish title going back to the 14th century. We need not concern ourselves with those early holders of the title. The 18th Earl, born in 1894, married a Barbara Murray from Fifth Avenue, New York, in 1922. I wonder if they were… Continue reading First Slice Your Cookbook
The Blues
On Appro
First Night of the Proms
Local News
Another Local Hero
Hail, Thou Bright and Sacred Morn
Budget day in Ireland, April 1970. A Dublin evening paper headlines that Finance Minister, Charles Haughey, is delivering his speech in Dáil Éireann. Only he didn’t as he’d either taken a tumble from his horse or been whacked over the head in a pub – take your choice – either way he was in hospital with… Continue reading Hail, Thou Bright and Sacred Morn