The last time I was in Mumbai it was still called Bombay. I stayed at the Taj Hotel, which is close to the Gateway to India. It’s easy to feel like an extra in a Bollywood film in such surroundings. On leaving the hotel in the morning I would hail a taxi for the short […]
Painting The Modern Water Lily
[Image by Pamela Nhlengethwa via Unsplash] Laura and I went to see the Painting The Modern Garden exhibition at the Royal Academy last Thursday. It’s only around for another fortnight, so we took advantage of being ‘Friends’ of the RA and booked a visit after hours. This means there are fewer bodies to each gallery […]
A New LikeMinds Event, A New Film, And An Exhibition
It’s not quite Four Weddings and a Funeral but the end of the month is starting to look busy. I’m looking forward to the next LikeMinds breakfast event on January 28th. The speaker at 12 Hay Hill this time will be media entrepreneur John Pearson. John is currently Chairman of Imagen but is possibly best […]
We See Star Wars At Last
We were five this festive period. My eldest has left her job in Bristol and is moving home at the end of next month. Temporarily. This has been a reminder for her of what’s in store. My younger two are both still at university but deemed us worthy of a Christmas visit. All three are […]
Roger Parry At Like Minds
I am late in posting this, thanks to a combination of a flurry of work in the last few months of the year and the fact that I took my site down for maintenance (read: refresh) and have only just put it back live again. So, in October, Roger Parry — a man with one […]
The No Offence Intended Gambit
And so 2016 has arrived. On time, too, and with no announced rise in fares. While the going is good, therefore, Happy New Year. The publication of government papers from 1985 under the thirty year rule saw Oliver Letwin reveal himself in a memo for Thatcher’s policy unit as a racist and a snob. The […]