Doing the Splits If you hold shares in a personal favourite of mine, Personal Assets, you are in for a big surprise on Monday.
Downton Abbey I doubt I will ever read Moby Dick and I never thought I’d watch Downton Abbey. Now I’m hooked on the latter.
Squeeze the Rich until the Pips Squeak. I’m writing a gripping history of taxation, “From Boston Tea Party to Poll Tax Riots”. It will not be a best seller.
A Dog’s Life Things are quite a bit better in the Bertie department. The cyst on his kidney is benign and he seems to have SLE but his organs have not been affected. His treatment (steroids) started yesterday afternoon.
A Dog’s Dinner Bertie is off-colour. He had a sore paw and then caught kennel cough in the vets’ waiting room.
Schengen Matters When I’m at home I am not in Schengen but Schengen can be in me – a riesling from Luxembourg, where the treaty was signed in 1985.