Hawes & Curtis

I first noticed Hawes & Curtis about ten years ago. I was still working in the City and bought a couple of cheap off-the-peg suits.

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Tears Before Bedtime

Obituaries are usually kind but this is the best The Independent could muster when Barbara Skelton died in 1996: “selfish, sulky, socially unmanageable, agreeable only when she was in the mood – the victim of the incurable boredom which fostered her promiscuity and her notorious rudeness”.

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Outsourcing

How much do I outsource and how much does it cost?

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One Hundred Easy Ways

Last night New York City came to Holland Park in Quick Fantastic’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town.

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June Gleanings

I find it some consolation that whatever indignities the Catholic Church has suffered in recent years, it retains its pre-eminence in the art of casuistry. (Letter in The Times from Sir Richard Stagg about the Prime Minister’s marriage at Westminster Cathedral) 10th September 2012. The idea of His Blondness with a finger on the nuclear button… Continue reading June Gleanings

Bitcherel

I was recently given this anthology of poems chosen by John Mortimer. 

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Rebellion Extinction

The first creation of the Bellew Barony only lasted three generations. A tombstone in Duleek tells the fate of John, 1st Lord Bellew. ”This Tomb hath been repaired and The Vault made by Dame Mary Bermingham Of Dunsert, Wife to John, Lord Bellew, Who was shot in the Belly in Aughrim Fight the twelfth of… Continue reading Rebellion Extinction

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A Baron and an Outlaw

“In the Parliament of 1639, Sir John Bellew of Willystown, was Knight for the County of Louth; married Mary, 2nd Daughter to Robert Dillon of Clonbrock, Esq and had Sir Patrick Bellew of Bellew-Mount, otherwise Bermeath (sic) in that County, who had a Grant of Lands under the Acts of Settlement in 1678, and 6… Continue reading A Baron and an Outlaw

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Where There’s a Will …

John Lodge’s information seems to come primarily from Wills and Court proceedings. I will spare you all the details and provide a few of the more interesting extracts.

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