The Angel’s Game

I recommend the novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez of which I have so far read only a few – see posts passim*.

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Taxing Times

Rich people, as you know, don’t pay tax. In fact the richer they are the less tax they pay.

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Masters of the Universe

These are the last two books I read, although I only read the first thirty pages of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.

Forty Winks

One afternoon when the chairman of the Friends of Margravine Cemetery delivered a plan of the trees in the cemetery, as I had requested, I was very obviously asleep on the sofa in the front window.

Peers on Parade

There was an article in The Spectator a while back about where Peers keep their robes. A God Daughter’s father keeps his on the back of the bathroom door hoping the steam will kill the moths.

Help?

When I was on a Southern (aka Govia Thameslink Railway) train last week I wasn’t a passenger I was a “customer”.

Run for the Hills

When you hear “democratisation” run for the hills, a wise friend told me on Friday.

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