England’s Green and Pleasant Land Who owns Britain? I mean the actual acres. Have a guess and you may be wrong – I was.
Wanna Make Moolah? It was more than forty years ago (1981) when I became an oil futures broker on the nascent International Petroleum Exchange.
Breakfast My breakfast diet has changed often over the years – from mother’s milk to muesli and so on.
Martial Music Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem was first performed at the consecration of Coventry Cathedral in 1962.
Wulff I read a review of this last year and didn’t want to read what sounded like a shabby little shocker about Benjamin Britten seducing a teenage German boy in 1938.
Poison Ivy The Ivy, like Langan’s Brasserie, was so hip no real people were admitted – like Mustique.
The World was my Oyster The W was my O in the summer of 1976 when they were out of season and what I wanted was a job, not a mollusc.
Tommasino This Gainsborough portrait is far from his most famous and you may wonder why it was the coda of a recent post, Sudbury’s Son.