Country Risk

A few years ago an FT columnist suggested investing in Russian funds.

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Posting Letters to the Moon

In December 2016 I drove to Nettlebed in Oxfordshire to pay homage to Celia Johnson and Peter Fleming. The post was Operation Sea Lion – Part One. 

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Tears not Cheers

”Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.” (Wikipedia)

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Maud’s War

Peter Fleming (journalist, soldier, travel writer and brother of Ian) commissioned Jan Struther to write a regular column for The Times about “an ordinary sort of woman who leads an ordinary sort of life”.

RSVP

This will be short because I have to dash off to lunch at a livery company: The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.