Red in Tooth and Claw

The peregrines nesting on Charing Cross Hospital have three eggs and some drama.

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Categorised as Nature

The Siege

I’m 500 pages in; I’m in deep Chips and need a break. Instead of a Kit-Kat, I’m enjoying an Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Siege.

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Categorised as Literature

Small Sausages

In the world of Chips his friends are rich although, until he married Honor Guinness, he wasn’t, but he splashed out and relied on his father to stump up. He did.

Yesterday’s Papers

An excellent article in The Times by Tom Whipple, “Whipple on the Care of the Climate”, raised a few points.

Fulham Cross

This is Fulham Cross, essentially where the Lillie Road intersects with the Munster Road.

Cosmopolitan

Many people find a slice of lemon in a beverage such as a gin and tonic provides an adequate vitamin supplement, if taken twice daily.

Sir John Lillie

John Scott Lillie was born in 1790 at Drumdoe Castle in Co Roscommon. Little Lillie grew up to be a great man.

Black and Tan

Wing Commander Gibson ,VC, DSO and bar, DFC and bar was the bravest of the brave. He died flying a Mosquito on a raid to Bremen in September 1944 aged twenty-six.