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… Continue reading “World Traders’ Installation Dinner 2006”
Independence From East Surrey
East Surrey Business Club
4 July 2006 – The House of Lords
Continue reading “Independence From East Surrey”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 …
Continue reading “Qurmudgeonly Questionnaire”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. Continue reading “A Tolerable Toast – Burns’ Night”
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 line is the French, the second was the restaurant’s translation, the third in brackets is a helpful, cultural interpretation (all right, perhaps they were my comments).
Continue reading “Francophilia – Selected Translation Tidbits from Le Royal Tour”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 until 2000 for this particularly challenging form of sail racing to make an appearance within Skandia Cowes Week.
Continue reading “Barging About In The Solent”Teach Yourself Germlish Racing On A J-24
Lesson 1 – On the Boat/An Bord
Continue reading “Teach Yourself Germlish Racing On A J-24”Dropping The Hook To Win The Race
[This article was published on the official Cowes site (www.cowesweek.co.uk) – Monday 5 Aug 2002]
Continue reading “Dropping The Hook To Win The Race”