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.
Sudbury’s Son Reading about the re-opening of Gainsborough’s House after a three year renovation costing £9 million I reflected.
The Way We Were It surprises me how ignorant I am about the 20th century history of the country where I was born and bred.