A Day of Reckoning

A month ago I took a look at my savings, see Bertie and Brunner. Now it’s time to see how resilient my portfolio is.

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The Happiest Days of My Life?

It was raining when I left the club to go to the Hugh Lane Gallery, so I took a cab. The driver asked me if I’d been in Ireland before …

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British Baroque

The last exhibition I saw was at Tate Britain. British Baroque: Power and Illusion covers the reigns of the last Stuart monarchs, from the restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714.

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I Don’t Believe It!

That’s Victor Meldrew’s catchphrase in One Foot in the Grave; a sitcom broadcast on the BBC in the last decade of the 20th century – those halcyon days. Well, I don’t believe it; I don’t believe I’ve never written about Rafael Sabatini.

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A Limpid Dreary Day

This morning I went to the Polish Café by the tube station to buy lunch. It is only doing take-away sales. The corner shop was busy but had run out of eggs. A long queue outside the butcher. A sign on the chemist’s door: “no Ibuprofen, thermometers or hand gel”. Oddbins also have a sign:… Continue reading A Limpid Dreary Day

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Country Life

Plenty of time to catch up on reading. I have just given up on Aldous Huxley’s first novel, Crome Yellow, published in 1921. It seems very dated. I am going to play for safety and re-read Jill the Reckless next – written by PG Wodehouse and also published in 1921.

The Virus in Numbers

185,426 people live in Hammersmith and Fulham. We have 23 cases of Coronavirus; just 0.01%, so far. The BBC website has area by area data. It is also interesting to put the spread of the virus into an international context and Worldometers.info is the place to go. The data is updated daily at midnight UK… Continue reading The Virus in Numbers

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Go to Work on an Egg

This is the best thing since sliced bread; just the job for brightening breakfast in these dark days of uncertainty. It combines elegance and functionality, looking perfectly at home beside the Dualit toaster. What is it? Take a look.       By dropping a steel ball onto the hemisphere covering the egg, the shell… Continue reading Go to Work on an Egg