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...

30 Jul 2022

My diary is now frighteningly empty, the emails have reduced to a trickle, and the mantlepiece no longer groans with elegantly engraved...

5 Jun 2022

Normality has returned, and I have been proudly (some might say hubristically) representing the Arts Scholars at various City do’s,...

3 Apr 2022

Yes! Invitations are coming in, and being accepted with alacrity; the dark miasma is still there (is the “dark” tautological in this...

30 Jan 2022

The last entry in this blog ended on a high, lurching homeward after an alcoholic and cheery supper in Highgate with some Arts Scholars;...

10 Nov 2021

… 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...

15 Jun 2021

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...

15 Mar 2021

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...

18 Dec 2020

September 24 2020. After a week of Arts Scholars inactivity (apart from the traditional email deluge – a Good Thing about being Master is...

28 Oct 2020

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...

17 Sept 2020

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...

10 Aug 2020

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...

10 Jul 2020