Follow the Money

I prefer to talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey; as a shareholder I talk to the CEO.

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What 3 Words

I read about What 3 Words a few years ago and thought it was pointless – I was wrong.

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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.

Flora and Fauna

There seems to be a new trend in environmental management in Richmond Park and on Wimbledon Common.

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Bright Young Things

I’m not an expert on anything; sometimes I know a bit or can express myself lucidly. I deployed this as an oil futures broker. Yesterday a friend asked me how she should address formally (on the envelope) the divorced wife of a younger son of a marquess who has subsequently remarried.

Milestones

I’m curious but not observant. I read on another blog about three things I have often walked past and never noticed; milestones. Like trig points and urban boot scrapers they are redundant. No doubt pillar boxes and public ‘phone booths will follow.

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Bugles and a Tiger

Soldiers are often able to put down the sword and take up a pen; from Julius Caesar to John Hackett. When we were in Wales recently I was introduced to a new-to-me soldier turned wordsmith: John Masters.

The Arab Boy

I have never seen this fascinating picture but at least one reader may have when it took its holidays in Boston in 2015; home is Kansas City.

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