Le Stopgap

Friends sent me these flowers as a thank you for having them to lunch.

A Village at War

I enjoyed Margery Allingham’s Traitor’s Purse published in 1941. The hero is her own Bertie Wooster: Albert Campion.

Not Busy Lizzie

Infrastructure is one of those long words like perspicacity and marmalade.

Books by the Bridge

The internet and AbeBooks has taken a lot of the fun out of shopping so I was pleased to come across Hurlingham Books near Putney Bridge on Monday. It is a browsers’ paradise, stacked high with a marvellous miscellany of everything under the sun.

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Spain and the Hispanic World

How to spend it? Philanthropists in the past have spent fortunes building collections that are internationally acclaimed for their quality today.