Bills

Don’t think I was ever on “The Bill”, when you have to report to the Head Master for a misdemeanour. Today there are three more Bills – eyes down, get ready to tick them off.

Loose Ends

I hate to write “unique” but Herald Investment Trust qualifies.

Hark the Herald

I have recently executed a Lasting Power of Attorney and chosen three attorneys. One of them is very indecisive.

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The Great Depression

Many years ago I was dining with friends when the doorbell went. Who could it be so late?

Stay Safe

A Close Friend (CF) recently took a walk with An Acquaintance (AA) of mine in the bracing fresh air of the south west of England. AA confided that she has fired her broker and now makes her own investment decisions guided by the recommendations she reads here. Oh dear!

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New Friends

Three or four mornings a week I drive out on the M4 to Cranford Park with Bertie. The park is sandwiched between the motorway and the north runway at Heathrow.

Monuments’ Man

George Clooney’s 2014 film, The Monuments Men, didn’t get a big hooray this side of the Atlantic, mostly because British participation was underplayed. Oh, it was a bad script too.

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The Auld Sod

The Oldie has an excellent column: Not Many Dead (Important Stories You May Have Missed). The December issue, beats me why it’s published in November unless it’s so subscribers in far-flung outposts receive a copy in a sweaty, cleft stick in time for Christmas, has two submissions.

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A Whiff of Cedar Wood

There was no post yesterday because I was busy doing a time-consuming chore; tidying the cellar.