Laying a Nest Egg

If you are a UK tax payer at this time of year you are an Ethelred (unready), a Cincinnatus (prepared) or an ostrich.

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Mix with the Medicis

To the National Gallery yesterday to see their Francesco Pesellino exhibition before it closes on Sunday.

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Erratum

Five years ago I wrote a post about an early novel by John le Carré: A Murder Of Quality.

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Wayland’s Smithy

Over nearly nine years (life of blog) there have been visits to Neolithic sites in Wiltshire, Malta and Moldova, reminiscences of visits to Newgrange and other sites in the Boyne valley and a Guest Blog about stone circles in Eskdale.

Back to Baroque

My Great Aunt Aline (Lloyd Thomas) is buried in the churchyard of St Swithun (sic), Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire.

Things to Play With

It’s not unusual for families to have furniture that has been handed on through the generations.

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Here’s the News

“Now here’s the man for whom the news wouldn’t be the news without the news, Heeeere’s Dicky.” (Dan Rowan in Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In)

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Bohemian Birthday

On this day in 1824 Bedřich Smetana was born. To mark the bicentenary of his birth he was the subject of Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3.

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A Miracle in Covent Garden

In January we needed to pick a lunch venue before a matinee of The Motive and the Cue at the Noël Coward Theatre on St Martin’s Lane.