Concordia, Industria, Integritas

I have been a long term investor in RIT (RIT Capital Partners). I bought the shares long ago in an ISA and didn’t record the price but it was around £8.00. Subsequently I have bought more. Today, or rather yesterday, it is £18.68.

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The Elphi

I went to visit sugar and oil traders in Hamburg a few times over the years, unfortunately before the Elphi opened in 2017.

Between the Sheets

I feel rather guilty when I finish an enjoyable, lightweight thriller. I ought to have been reading something more improving.

1988 and All That

I don’t hoard, there isn’t room for that indulgence in a small late Victorian terraced house; so it is giving me immense pleasure to read a copy of The Spectator dated 27 February 1988.

The Prix Goncourt

I have not been to the Restaurant Drouant in Paris but the menu is enticing and it has a regular clientele.

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On Dangerous Ground

I am skating on thin ice or walking on dangerous ground most days, pontificating on a wide range of matters of which I am largely ignorant. If I could remember even half the material I have read over the past nine years to bone up on blogs I would have an enviable all round education.