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A Man of Letters

Nine years ago, when I started writing here, I had an idea it might lead to writing in newspapers and magazines; perhaps a regular column.

High Life, Low Life; or a Princess and Politics

Nick Foulkes was commissioned to interview Princess Ira von Fürstenberg for The Aesthete column in the HTSI (How To Spend It) supplement to WeekendFT, an agreeable task.

Mourning Post

This fountain at the south end of Bryanston Square looks rather contemporary – at least the base does but actually it hasn’t changed since it was built in the early 1860s.

Yesterday’s Papers

For about fifty years I wrote desultorily to the letters’ columns of newspapers without having any published.

Much Ado About Nothing

Yesterday I popped up to the shops to buy a bottle of Captain Morgan’s spiced rum – a sustaining addition to a matutinal espresso.

The Knowledge

The Week wasn’t for me when it started all those years ago(1994).

Sir John Verney, Bt.

Yesterday’s post gives, I hope, a tantalising glimpse of a Renaissance man: Sir John Verney, Bt. His obituary, in The Times 5th February 1993, fills out the picture.