Category: Charities

A Noble Thing?

The National Trust evokes a range of emotions and the appointment of Helen McGrady as its new Director-General stirs up some new ones.

The Loriners

The purpose of writing here is to enlighten, entertain and, perhaps, infuriate. What I don’t do is to share my irrational worries. For eight months I have been mighty worried. 

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Booth

No doubt you make a Pavlovian association between Booth and gin. Well the link has been broken since production ceased in 2017.

The Golden Bottle

Mrs Hudson came in without knocking while I was having forty winks. I awoke to hear Holmes expostulating “Dear Mrs H, please desist from wipin’ your hands on your apron – so common”. I knew that her intrusion must be warranted.

Nouveau Pauvres

As we bumble Brexit-wards I worry about my friends with properties in France. How will they manage? We must look to history for guidance.

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Crown, Shamrock & Brexit

Instituted in 1783 to assist Irish persons in need, resident in London. Registered Charity Number: 214824. President: Lord Aylmer. Patron: The Duke of Abercorn KG The President and Committee of The Benevolent Society of St Patrick request the pleasure of your company at a Talk by Mary Kenny, “Crown, Shamrock & Brexit”, on Wednesday 8th… Continue reading Crown, Shamrock & Brexit

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Risotto & Ratio

My great-great-great-great grandfather is a distinguished Spanish mathematician and scientist. It would be repetitious to write about him as older readers will remember the story from a September 2015 post, A Spy in the Family.

George Peabody

On Monday I walked across London for lunch at the City of London club in Old Broad Street. On the way home I snapped this bronze at the back of the Royal Exchange. In thirty-nine years working in the City I saw it countless times without having the curiosity to learn more.

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High Returns

Monday morning, back to business. Recent posts have tended to concentrate on shares that offer prospects of capital growth and low income. Older posts looked more at high income. I have returned to looking at high income investments.

More Jottings

Fulham Palace Road is not Bond Street so it was an unexpected pleasure to bump into Kate Cambridge yesterday morning. She was driving with a male passenger (bodyguard, I suppose) accompanied by the Special Escort Group, deploying their whistles. We haven’t had such excitement since the Queen Mother’s funeral cortège came along the Talgarth Road.