Steady Eddie

Strange, I can have the windows cleaned and Bertie can have a haircut but I will have to wait until 12th April to visit Geo. F Trumper in Curzon Street.

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At Home

For once Bertie wasn’t to blame. He’d seen a seal basking on the St Paul’s School boathouse slipway a few times and, as we say in Ireland, passed no remark.

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A Ditch in a Desert

Crossword clue: a ditch in a desert (4, 5). I made that up. Real crossword clue in The Times yesterday: this won’t turn in the lock (5, 4) answer; canal boat.

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Through the Roof

That wet party, the Lib Dems, so small its MPs could meet in a ‘phone box if they were vying for a place in The Guinness Book of Records.

Red in Tooth and Claw

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

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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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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.