Advent Calendar: 21st December

21st December 1664 “Up, and after evening reckonings to this day with Mr. Bridges, the linnen draper, for callicos, I out to Doctors’ Commons, where by agreement my cozen Roger and I did meet my cozen Dr. Tom Pepys, and there a great many and some high words on both sides, but I must confess… Continue reading Advent Calendar: 21st December

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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.