EEA

Three months after the EU referendum we are having the sort of detailed debate we should have had three months before the referendum. It comes as no surprise that Nissan’s continued investment in the UK is at jeopardy. Let’s look at the numbers.

Gleizes

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.

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X Marks the Spot

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

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.

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A Bridge Too Far

As London plans to blow about £185 million on a “garden bridge” across the Thames, Paris has found a better option.

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What’s an MP’s Job?

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 –

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A Hundred Years Young

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.

Percy Jeeves

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.

Why Showers Leak

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.