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Knockfane is Homan Potterton’s first novel and I wondered what style he would adopt. The back cover promises “Knockfane is a Big House novel for a new generation”.

Ukrainians are devout as their large and varied supply of churches testifies.

The Royal Artillery Gold Cup was inaugurated in 1862 and, with interruptions for the Boer War and two World Wars, is probably more hotly contested today, well yesterday, than at any time in its long history. Since 1921 it has been run at Sandown Park.

Are sexuagenarians prone to pessism? It’s easier to worry about the future than look forward to it, on many levels, but we must keep buggering on.

I don’t have much luck with Celebrity Carol Services. Years ago I went to the parliamentary carol service at which, by tradition, the Prime Minister is a reader.

The third form at Oundle were set eighty questions of unusual complexity to unravel over half-term. Of the ten I showed you I got just two right and then only two more of the other seventy. Here they are again with the answers.

Reading old posts (rather narcissistic but checking what I’ve written) I find typos un-noticed by me and Principal Proof Reader, Mrs Dog-Lover. Mrs D-L gets on the job at about 7.00 a.m. so by the time you read, it has all been tidied up. When I went to stay with my cousin in Essex she… Continue reading Sloppy