World Traders’ Installation Dinner 2006
A speech in honour of my dear friend, Jack Wigglesworth, on 12 October 2006 in Drapers’s Hall – I wound up becoming a World Trader because of this talk…
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Independence From East Surrey
East Surrey Business Club 4 July 2006 – The House of Lords
All Aboard For Clays In Central London
“All Aboard for Clays in Central London” (John Hargreaves’ shoot off Lady Daphne), Michael Yardley, Sporting Shooter, Archant Specialist, Issue 23, September 2005, page 11.
Qurmudgeonly Questionnaire
Our family’s 2005 attempt to celebrate our father’s birthday led to the organisation of a Curmudgeon Conference, backed up by solid market research and pricked by a porcupine …
A Tolerable Toast – Burns’ Night
Caledonian Club, London, 11 February 2005 Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, Lords and Ladies, Highlanders and Rabbie-like Lowlanders, Waiters and Waitresses, … and uhm, ahh yes, native English people.
Francophilia – Selected Translation Tidbits from Le Royal Tour
Selected Translation Tidbits from Le Royal Tour Restaurant menu by the Eiffel Tower, 23 Avenue La Bourdonnais, 75007 Paris, France, +33 1 45 51 38 04 All entries are absolutely true – heck you couldn’t make this up – i.e. the first…
Barging About In The Solent
[This article was published by Yachting World, on the official Cowes site (www.cowesweek.co.uk) – Monday 4 Aug 2003] Barge matches date back to the late 1700s, even if their meetings were not known by that name then, but it took…
Teach Yourself Germlish Racing On A J-24
Lesson 1 – On the Boat/An Bord
Dropping The Hook To Win The Race
[This article was published on the official Cowes site (www.cowesweek.co.uk) – Monday 5 Aug 2002]
Middle Aged, Middle Of The Fleet, And Loving It – Kiel Week 2002 (Kieler Woche)
Sailors are only young once – for this sailor it’s once a year at Kiel Week.