Schengen Matters

When I’m at home I am not in Schengen but Schengen can be in me – a riesling from Luxembourg, where the treaty was signed in 1985.

On the Road

In June 2017 I bought Aberdeen Japan Investment Trust. Yesterday I sold out.

Brideshead Revisited

George’s recent comment here about Evelyn Waugh’s (Wu as Conrad calls him) generous opinion of Conrad Russell was written after Conrad’s death. He had not had an opportunity to read Conrad’s letters.

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April is the Cruelest Month

Thank you to friends wishing me a happy 68th birthday on Sunday: here, by post and email. I had a home-made birthday cake with candles (not 68).

Tied Up

When I came to live and work in London in 1976 my grandfather generously thought of a couple of things to make me fit in.

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The Efficient Eimear

Unlike Lord Emsworth my grandfather rather enjoyed having a secretary. He called her Miss Tappitt, not to her face.

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Fifty Ways

Anthony Sampson’s Anatomy of Britain in 1962 was a success with many follow-ups until Who Runs This Place? The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century in 2004; last in the series as Samson died that year.

What Comes Around …

Theophilus Van Kannel was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame in 2007.

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