I will start the February blog on 31st January, the occasion of a Burns Night extravaganza with the City Livery Club which provided the...

November opened with the City Livery Club Installation Dinner at Apothecaries’ Hall, where I had myself been installed back in May. This...

The Learned and Gallant Clerk and I began the month as guests of the Clockmakers at the Harrison Lecture followed by dinner at...

The Livery world tends to follow academic terms as regards activity. After seven rather hectic weeks from installation I had much less to...

Charity Awards Luncheon My first July event was the Company of Arts Scholars Charitable Trust Awards Luncheon on 1st July in Founders’...

Installation My installation on 30th May at Apothecaries Hall was a splendid event, masterminded with his usual precision by the Clerk. I...

Captain’s log, stardate 2024 nearing the end of an amazing intergalactic journey through the City cosmos….. Sorry, dear readers, I was...

For the remainder of my Master’s blog, dear reader, I shall write about selected highlights rather than running the risk of boring you by...

17th Jan: In the morning, I visited Goldsmiths Hall with the Clerk and the Beadle to talk through the logistics of the forthcoming...

1 November: The first event of the month was Joanna attending an afternoon Consorts’ event at Goldsmiths Hall – always a splendid venue....

4th October: to Mansion House for the Glovers’ Banquet. It was good to see John and Mary Spanner there looking very splendid. We took...

1st September: to the City University Club for a Fish & Chip lunch organised by Sonya Zuckerman. This was a delightful occasion with...

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...

25th May Apothecaries Hall was the wonderful venue for the day’s events – this being the oldest extant Livery Hall in the City. Firstly,...

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...

7 September. Back after six weeks away in Spain, too long really, missed an invite to the Bakers’ Company dinner today. 8 September. A...

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...

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

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

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