October 2023
4th October: to Mansion House for the Glovers’ Banquet. It was good to see John and Mary Spanner there looking very splendid. We took...
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- Oct 9
- 6 min
September 2023
1st September: to the City University Club for a Fish & Chip lunch organised by Sonya Zuckerman. This was a delightful occasion with...
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- Aug 4
- 9 min
July 2023
4th July: AGM of the Sheriffs and Recorders Fund at the Old Bailey. Founded in 1808, the Fund gives grants to ex-prisoners and their...
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- Jul 3
- 9 min
May - June 2023
25th May Apothecaries Hall was the wonderful venue for the day’s events – this being the oldest extant Livery Hall in the City. Firstly,...
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- Jul 3
- 3 min
January - May 2023
9th January. First event of the year to the Glaziers’ Company for an early celebration to herald in the Chinese New Year, the year of the...
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- Jan 3
- 4 min
September - December 2022
7 September. Back after six weeks away in Spain, too long really, missed an invite to the Bakers’ Company dinner today. 8 September. A...
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- Jul 30, 2022
- 3 min
May - July 2022: Reflections from our new Master
19 May Well, there I was on the 19th May installed as the 16th Master of our fantastic Company, an emotional ceremony for me, no more so...
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- Jun 5, 2022
- 6 min
March - May 2022: The last one. Ever.
My diary is now frighteningly empty, the emails have reduced to a trickle, and the mantlepiece no longer groans with elegantly engraved...
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- Apr 3, 2022
- 6 min
January - March 2022: Eating, Eating, Always Eating
Normality has returned, and I have been proudly (some might say hubristically) representing the Arts Scholars at various City do’s,...
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- Jan 30, 2022
- 9 min
November 2021 - January 2022: Carry on Carrying on Regardless
Yes! Invitations are coming in, and being accepted with alacrity; the dark miasma is still there (is the “dark” tautological in this...
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- Nov 10, 2021
- 8 min
June - October 2021: Real Life Begins Again
The last entry in this blog ended on a high, lurching homeward after an alcoholic and cheery supper in Highgate with some Arts Scholars;...
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- Jun 15, 2021
- 8 min
March – June 2021: The Virtual World Continues …
… but then gets a bit more Actual rather than Virtual towards the end. Is this the beginning of the end? The end of the beginning? A blip...
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- Mar 15, 2021
- 6 min
December 2020 – March 2021: Adrian Mole – The Zoom Years
This is Blog No 6, which led me to wonder, at a rather late stage, if I was doing it right. I did a bit of research (not all that...
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- Dec 18, 2020
- 5 min
October – December 2020: In Which Mr Pooter Keeps Pootling On
My last blog ended with the cheeriest and jolliest of Pocket Lunches (or as cheery and jolly as one can get whilst sitting in front of a...
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- Oct 28, 2020
- 5 min
September - October 2020: The Catharsis Continues
September 24 2020. After a week of Arts Scholars inactivity (apart from the traditional email deluge – a Good Thing about being Master is...
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- Sep 17, 2020
- 6 min
August – September 2020: Water, Water Everywhere
I ended my last entry in a spirit of cheery optimism, with a wrecked sitting room, but a heart full of hope, striding confidently towards...
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- Aug 10, 2020
- 6 min
July - August 2020: The Next 5 Weeks
The end of my first quarter as Master. Reading the blogs of my predecessors, I cannot fail to notice that they got out and about a bit...
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- Jul 10, 2020
- 5 min
May – July 2020: The First 8 Weeks
The last time I did anything like this was a lifetime ago, when I committed my teenage angst to the pages of a Collins diary; whatever...
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