River Views

If you google “expensive fish restaurant Barnes” up comes Rick Stein.  By its own admission, Rick Stein, Barnes,  has limited tables with views of the river but maybe you are lucky enough to secure one.

Chacun à Son Goût

Usually readers here are, more or less, on the same wave length as me. At lunch yesterday a friend said that she doesn’t read if my daily dose is about money and another said that she gets incredibly annoyed if it’s about politics.  That’s absolutely OK but what about this?

FTWeekend News

The FTWeekend is my bible. The daily version has too much “noise” and I find it easier to identify trends with only a weekly fix. Here is what caught my attention yesterday morning.

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Reader’s Digest

If you wonder who reads my almost daily posts this may interest you.

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Whacky Wodehouse

Here’s a book you haven’t read. It will be published early next month.

The Ghastly Affair

Rosherville Gardens was a seventeen acre site on the Thames not far from Gravesend in Kent. It opened in 1837 to provide a day out for Londoners, consisting of pleasure gardens adorned with statues, follies and more than 8,000 specimen trees. Visitors came by paddle-steamer and new attractions were added including bands, jugglers, sword swallowers,… Continue reading The Ghastly Affair

Tax Matters

Tax Freedom Day is the first day of the year in which a nation as a whole has theoretically earned enough income to pay its taxes. (Wiki) In the US in 2015 it was 24th April. Not so good in the UK: 3rd June in 2016. The Adam Smith Institute does the sums in the… Continue reading Tax Matters

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George Sims

This morning, if it’s morning for you – I notice that blog readers do it in the morning. I do because I read blogs too and I read them in the morning. A lot of bloggers have a “blog roll” on their website with the blogs they read. I don’t, mostly because I don’t have… Continue reading George Sims

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Matinee Idle

I have never felt moved to reinvent myself but I greatly admire those who have – prime example, Plácido Domingo.

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Breaking the Rules

Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Spacey in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow at The Old Vic were stupendous. Mamet’s plays and films are sensational.  So it was a no-brainier to go to Glengarry Glen Ross in the West End.