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With Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year.    

Virginia Cowles writes affectionately about the Spaniards she met in this warts and all extract from Looking for Trouble.

There has been a paucity of posts recently. To make amends, a plentitude of pooches.

I lunched with Mary Bartlett at the Étoile. She showed me the tongue motion that women make when they are cleaning lipstick off their front teeth and I feel that I have gained a valuable piece of information. (The Siren Years, Charles Ritchie) In our house, we sometimes look at our belongings and remind ourselves:… Continue reading September Gleanings

The BBC has been challenged this year.

It’s hard to know where to start. It’s gratifying when Bertie eliminates something solid close to a bin. It is less pleasing when I climb thirty-six stairs to bed with a PG Wodehouse and find I read Spring Fever recently.

The inaugural meeting of The William Sansom Society was held in the garden yesterday.

The hero is Colonel Bellew.

Over the years there have been plenty of posts about Bellew family history. Today I will introduce you to a fictional Bellew.

The thermometer has been nudging 30C this week in London. The question is what to drink to cool down? The answer is Mateus Rosé.