Much Ado About Nothing Yesterday I popped up to the shops to buy a bottle of Captain Morgan’s spiced rum – a sustaining addition to a matutinal espresso.
Literary Lions You may not agree but I reckon the three greatest living British novelists are, in ascending order of age, Sebastian Faulks (69), William Boyd (70) and Julian Barnes (76).
King Freddie The new illegal immigrant Hotel is coming along well and should be ready to receive “guests” arriving in the summer dash across La Manche next year.
In the Channon’s Mouth In 1300 BC King Arzawa installed central heating in his palace at Beycesultan, Turkey.