What Ho, Haggis This is the first edition of the first book by Clarissa Dickson Wright, published in 1996 when she was thirty-nine.
King Freddie The new illegal immigrant Hotel is coming along well and should be ready to receive “guests” arriving in the summer dash across La Manche next year.
Doing the Splits If you hold shares in a personal favourite of mine, Personal Assets, you are in for a big surprise on Monday.
Wodehouse in the Springtime George Dennis Martin was an architect most of whose work is in London but one of his most spectacular commissions is The Majestic Hotel in Harrogate.
What Presents Did You Get? As Bertie is only two he got up early to open his presents. Sixty years ago I did the same.
The Dubliners It’s a different country. I popped into the Shelbourne to use the wifi and thought I’d have a drink. “Coffee?”
A Fruity Function “Pongo had assured me … this birthday binge … was to be on a scale calculated to stagger humanity.” (Right Ho Jeeves, PG Wodehouse)
Mastermind Nothing is Simple in Wodehouse (by Tong Ring) will I expect be proven at 7.30 this evening on BBC 2.