Category: Family

When I came to live and work in London in 1976 my grandfather generously thought of a couple of things to make me fit in.

Unlike Lord Emsworth my grandfather rather enjoyed having a secretary. He called her Miss Tappitt, not to her face.

Old men don’t always forget.

F Yeats-Brown describes a day pig-sticking in Bengal Lancer. If only his horse was faster he might win the Kadir Cup he muses.

    What’s for lunch? Wait for me! Beagle at Bay, with apologies to Landseer.  

  Freddie’s Flowers, £25 per week, take a lot of arranging. It’s hard work but I’m retired and neither Bertie or Robert are interested in floristry.

The first creation of the Bellew Barony only lasted three generations. A tombstone in Duleek tells the fate of John, 1st Lord Bellew. ”This Tomb hath been repaired and The Vault made by Dame Mary Bermingham Of Dunsert, Wife to John, Lord Bellew, Who was shot in the Belly in Aughrim Fight the twelfth of… Continue reading Rebellion Extinction