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.
Joining up the Dots It was a warm afternoon in London yesterday. Fortunately I was at the London Irish Centre in Camden and cooled off in the bar with a friend.
Jubilee Reflections Four days of Platinum Jubilee celebrations and on day five an attempt to chuck out the Prime Minister.
Etiquette Here are some tips: never say “how are you?” to anybody over sixty; never, ever, ask if they have had problems with a printer. It is safer to ask after children and grandchildren.
The Remains of the Day Young Mungo may be cathartic but it is an unedifying book. I turned for relief to another Booker winner (in 1989).