September was a good month for Wodehousians. On the 20th we assembled in Westminster Abbey for Evensong and then, in a state of Grace but not Monaco, the Duke of Kent presented a memorial to PGW to the Dean, who dedicated it.
⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️ Bugles and a Tiger describes John Masters’ time at Sandhurst and serving with the Gurkhas in India in the 1930s. It sets the stage for his second volume when the world is at war: The Road Past Mandalay.
Many Prime Ministers have left their stamp on Downing Street, starting with Walpole who hired William Kent. The next significant intervention was by Robert Jenkinson. Who?
In the late 1970s I was a Trooper in the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC). One summer I was sent to a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) school in the Black Forest.
It is May 2018. Six serving British soldiers are in the Republic of Ireland with weapons and live ammunition. This is not the beginning of a new career for me as a thriller writer. This is true.
Wagner Night was a Proms tradition that was revived on Monday. Marc Albrecht conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He seemed an appropriate choice: Albrecht/Alberich.