Caroline

Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night in the North Sea – so long ago there were no wind farms or oil rigs – a funny looking boat bobbed around.

Boring is Best

  There has been nothing to get excited about in the UK stock market recently. The FTSE 100 has been moving sideways, at best, for about three years.

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A Venetian Aperitivo

Campari is no rarity on British shelves but, until the last few years, Aperol was hard to buy. I used to ask a friend to bring a bottle back when she was in Italy. Now Aperol is ubiquitous.

Kiva

ˈkiːvə/ noun a chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by male Pueblo Indians for religious rites.

And Now The Shipping Forecast

Peter Jefferson read the Shipping Forecast on the BBC for more than forty years so it’s likely that he has lulled you to sleep a few times.

Posh Salt

My youngest god-daughter, Dorelia, is fashion-forward. She came back from a trip to Paris with her father with two birthday presents for me.

Step Inside

I went to Wormwood Scrubs (above) on Saturday to see an exhibition of art by offenders laid on by the Koestler Trust. Here is what I bought.

G is for Goshawk

Helen Macdonald garnered praise and the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2014 with H is for Hawk. A substantial strand of the book is about TH White (above) and his book The Goshawk, written shortly before World War II, but not published until 1951.

Peaky Bloomers

Peaky Blinders is a BBC crime drama series set in Birmingham immediately after World War I. It must be good – it’s on its third series. I’ve not seen it (maybe a good box set for the winter) but Dr Henry Sanford has.