Both Eurostar and TGV in France have more first class seats than passengers prepared to pay for them. This creates an opportunity to travel more comfortably at only a little extra cost.
A retirement project is to be a Short Term Observer (STO) for overseas elections. At the beginning of this year I completed an online course and waited for an election to come along.
TPT might mean Trailer Park Trash or even Tara Palmer-Tomkinson as she looks better at the head of this post but today it stands for Turner Prize Time.
On Monday evening I walked over to the King’s Road to meet a friend for an early supper before watching Norma in the Curzon cinema, live from the Royal Opera House (RoHo).
By and large I am prepared to disagree with anything Jeremy Corbyn says without listening. JC, in case you have been living in political detox, has been re-crowned as leader of the Labour Party in the UK. However, I sort of agree with him about this –
I went to a very enjoyable lunch party at the Turf Club last week. My host encouragingly said that it would not be a short one and this proved correct. After some sluicing and slurping in an outer room at lunch I sat between two strangers.
In the middle of July I went on a day trip to Cheltenham to watch Gloucester play Essex. As I am not especially fond of cricket (I was a Wet Bob) there was another reason.
I mentioned that the Courtaulds installed a cold shower at Eltham Palace when they made their home there in the 1930s. It took the rest of us in the UK a long time to catch on.
Six political parties in the UK are led by women (pedantically five 1/2); none so far as I know in the US. However, there have been women who have carried considerable influence in American politics and none more so than Alice Roosevelt Longworth.