Gandamack Lodge Inexplicably I forgot to mention Gandamack Lodge when I wrote about eccentric hotels in 2016: Room With a View.
You Must Be Joking If you are reading this you shouldn’t. You should go to YouTube and search for You Must Be Joking (b&w, 1965, Michael Winner).
Breasts and Bottoms Litter is a First World problem but I live in the First World and I don’t like litter, unless it’s a litter of beagle puppies.
Ukrainian Themes There was serendipity reading War with Russia yesterday morning whilst listening to Rhapsody on Ukrainian Themes by Sergei Lyapunov on BBC Radio 3.
War Games Perhaps an antagonistic bull would buy this paperback if he were a bull in an airport bookshop. The publisher (Coronet) has packaged it to make it as unappealing as possible to a thoughtful reader.
Short Ride in a Fast Machine It’s a well known fact: alpha males with money drive silver Teslas. It’s also a tongue twister.
Another Diana Estcourt J Clack sounds like a character from PG Wodehouse; a dyspeptic American millionaire perhaps.