On Thursday we walked via Times Square to Pier 83 on the Hudson for a 1 1/2 hour boat trip down the bay, past the Statue of Liberty and up the East River to the Williamsburg Bridge.
I started writing here eleven years ago. I thought I might be bored not having to get up and go to work. Strange, because I always had a range of interests beyond my job.
I should go to an overworked NHS doctor for a check-up occasionally but, as with the car and gas boiler, I wait for something to go wrong. This website does gets a check-up; it comes with the rations as us old soldiers say.
When a country has an elite school it is always described as the Eton of (insert country). In the FTWeekend today Aitchison College is “Pakistan’s answer to Eton”. Is there a Harrow of Pakistan, or anywhere else? But I digress.
When Barnes Wallis and Nevil Norway (aka Nevil Shute) were tinkering with designs for passenger airships at Vickers, Short Brothers had another vision for inter-continental travel.
I have recently re-read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John le Carré, 1974) in which lamplighters are the dogsbodies of British intelligence doing surveillance and courier work.