I don’t know why I bought Astra Zeneca in July 2010, maybe for the yield, but I did. The shares were about £32. The following summer they were £30 so I topped up. Since then it has been a bumpy ride but now they are circa £72 with a P/E over 25 and yielding 3%.… Continue reading Marks and Sparks
Hot Stuff at the Oriental
I first drove my own car in a foreign country in 1974 when I took my Morris Minor on the ferry from Dublin to Liverpool and drove over to Durham. By the 1980s I had a company car and took it to France for Bank Holiday weekends and Switzerland to ski. I think the snow… Continue reading Hot Stuff at the Oriental
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Another Bellew on the Green Benches?
The posts I most enjoy writing are about my antecedents. Bellews have been biggish fish in a small pool, Ireland. In England they would have perhaps had Minor County status but as Catholic landowners they had enough money to have a network of European connections through marriage. It is one reason I identify myself as… Continue reading Another Bellew on the Green Benches?
The Great Game
This picture, in the British Library, was taken at Jamrud Fort during the return from a Durbar at Umballa. Amir Sher Ali Khan is in the centre with Colonel Frederick Pollock standing, Colonel Crawford Trotter Chamberlain sitting on the right and to the left, Henry Walter Bellew, Indian Medical Service, acting as interpreter.