Category: Family

The Chumly Test

I failed the Chumly Test when I came to live in London and mentioned Cad O’Gan Square and continue to fail it, most recently at Kenwood.

Bedtime Story

More than fifty years ago I stayed in a B&B near Dingle.

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A Blast

“I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee,… Continue reading A Blast

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It’s in the Post

I have written a cheque this morning – my first this year – worthy of a cuckoo letter to The Times?

Our Kind of Ambassador

At the time of the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962 the British Ambassador in Washington was David Ormsby-Gore. He did not determine events but he was an important influencer.

A Rap on the Knuckles

My first school was in Castlebellingham, just a thirteen minute drive from Barmeath. My mother always took the blue route through Annagassan and along the coast to Castlebellingham.

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A Bishop of Ossory

David Rothe (1573 – 1650) was “raised by the Pope to the dignity of Prothonotary Apostolic”.

A Feather in His Cap

I confuse Aubusson and Audubon. You will know the former is a village in central France famous for the production of rugs – a French Axminster, if you will.