Tory Tombola I made a mistake yesterday. I took a black cab from St James’s Street to Tower Bridge. I thought it would take thirty minutes but it took an hour and twenty minutes.
Lost in the Apennines You probably thought John Verney did the dust jacket for his book. I wondered and he didn’t.
Platinum Recollections I’m like Bertie with a bone – I want to chew over three bits of the Birthday Parade you missed on TV.
Posting Letters to the Moon In December 2016 I drove to Nettlebed in Oxfordshire to pay homage to Celia Johnson and Peter Fleming. The post was Operation Sea Lion – Part One.
Stage and Screen Would you like to go to a musical about two teenage (18 and 19) Chicago college boys who murder a 14 year-old boy in Chicago for fun?
The Play’s the Thing Modern plays are not always disastrous but you sit in the stalls for two hours (they are usually short) at your peril.
Freedom Day Yesterday was “Freedom Day” in England. (They do it differently in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland so their administrations can feel free.)
Pirates The Union Theatre was a favourite when I worked in the City. Handy to walk to and they reliably staged impressive, small- scale musicals.