Vietnam Revisited

You may have noticed I’m becoming mildly obsessed with my investments as a bit of light relief from reading and doing crosswords. This breaks one of my rules: don’t look.

Covid Cuisine

I hope you will agree that food porn is harmless. I like this shot because the photographer just had to eat most of the nuts and have a slurp of the red before taking the picture. I like the look of the garlic bread.

Hither and Thither

The bone china plate in the centre is hand-painted. It refers to the title sequence at the beginning of Jeeves and Wooster, a television series on ITV shown at the end of the last century.

For Richer for Poorer

When Edward Bellew married Augusta Bryan in 1853 it brought two old, landed Catholic families together; one rich the other stupendously rich.

Don’t Try This at Home

Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, of course if you don’t know what Bitcoin is you will not know what a cryptocurrency is; so let’s move on.

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Allsorts

It has been chilly in London but we have had some sunshine.

Eating with Anatole

Handel was employed for just under two years by the 1st Duke of Chandos at Cannons, his immense Baroque/Palladian pile in Stanmore, Middlesex. Under the Duke’s patronage he composed the Chandos Anthems and “other important works”, says Wikipedia vaguely.

Every Blog Needs a Dog

Every Blog Needs a Dog is an old post, dating back to August 2015 and, as you know, it wasn’t until last year that this blog got its own dog. He was very pleased to see us yesterday; so excited that his blood pressure shot up and he started bleeding again; don’t ask from which… Continue reading Every Blog Needs a Dog

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