Barging In
“Barging In” , Lora Walsh Benson, Securities & Invesment Review, Securities & Investment Institute, September 2007, page 38. E957_Sii_main4mainelli
Category Life As We Live It
Mark My Keyboards
A night with Harvard classmate Mark Schaffer always covers a wide variety of topics, whisk(e)y, pizza, Hendrix, science fiction, the elixers of life, and Marks. By which I mean Mark I and Mark II computers. Harvard IBM Mark I –…
The City Debate: Are Economic Advancement & A Clean Environment Incompatible?
The City Debate 2007 at Mansion House, 29 January 2007 [left to right] Chris Huhne MP (Liberal Democrats’ Shadow Environment Food and Rural Affairs Secretary), Emma Duncan (Deputy Editor, The Economist), Rt Hon Michael Portillo, Richard D North (Fellow, Insitute…
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…
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…