Month: August 2024

The Prix Goncourt

I have not been to the Restaurant Drouant in Paris but the menu is enticing and it has a regular clientele.

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On Dangerous Ground

I am skating on thin ice or walking on dangerous ground most days, pontificating on a wide range of matters of which I am largely ignorant. If I could remember even half the material I have read over the past nine years to bone up on blogs I would have an enviable all round education.

Japanese Gardens

The Kyoto Garden in Holland Park was opened in 1991 to commemorate friendly relations between the UK and Japan that have burgeoned after the Second World War. It is one of about eight Japanese gardens in the UK today.

A Man of Letters

Nine years ago, when I started writing here, I had an idea it might lead to writing in newspapers and magazines; perhaps a regular column.

A KGB Vassal

Yesterday Greville Wynne was caught by the KGB stealing Soviet nuclear secrets. I suppose the KGB received a tip off from the Cambridge spies.