There is nothing quite like a party which is opposite your front-door for the naturally lazy at heart, particularly in these foul winter months with their endless icy drifting drizzle. So it was unlikely we were going to give the Harbour Club Christmas party a miss. Not the greatest of parties, especially not with this [...]
Saturday afternoon amid the euphoria of the England Rugby world Cup win against Australia and torrents of English rain we went over to Helena’s place to pick-up her worldly possessions to move them to my place. Everything went smoothly and by the evening she was settled into her new home with me and we got [...]
Friday evening we went to the Barbican with Sandra and Danny to see Madrid’s Radio Tarifa. An exciting fusion of flamenco, ancient Iberian, Moorish, Yiddish, North African and Middle Eastern music, evoking the past whilst remaining enthrallingly contemporary. In spite of their casual and understated attitude they kept the crowd utterly enthralled. A cool evening [...]
With the US President visiting London at the moment security measures have been stepped-up all over the city. Yesterday morning I was at Westminster tube station waiting for my Jubilee line train where there were a group of specialised police security experts patrolling the platform. Three burley officers with stern bulldog-like faces, including the WPC [...]
In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Last night we went to Nell’s Bar in Piccadilly where we hooked-up with Louisa and friends to see Jess sing some of her songs. I will admit I was mightily impressed. You have talent Jessica Murphy.
I was in the changing-rooms of my local sports-club last night when a bulletin came one the television with a report on details of the Soham trial of Huntley and Carr for the murder of two children, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. The news broadcaster was showing computer graphics showing the last route taken by [...]
It seems that the Parisian snobs are upset that the mayors of France have elected a day-time TV chat-show host to be the current face of “Marianne” :
“It is the difference between France as it ought to be in the minds of a purist elite - and France as it actually is.
And as anyone [...]
