Wombat Diet

London’s skyline is changing dramatically, but why not connect the London underground to a new building like “The Shard” — perhaps by building beside a disused London underground station?

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There is a verb in our marriage: to collopse.
I forget who used it first, a child perhaps. But the first to collopse, the person for whom the word was coined, was a plastic donkey with elasticated legs. When the base of his little pedestal was pushed… he collopsed, to general amusement. Every time.
All that remains [...]

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Yesterday evening we went for a stroll across Regent’s Park to Primrose Hill (panorama) and back around the edge of the park. Everywhere the daffodils and snowdrops were up. It was a fine spring evening in what should have been winter. It’s become a truism that we now have only 3 seasons.
En route we [...]

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I took the Russian Princess to see the Chinese Terracotta Warriors this evening. The exhibition is in the reading room of the British Museum, which provides a spectacular backdrop (photos). A false floor has been installed and the space converted temporarily for the exhibition.
Finally, I am taking cultural advantage of living in London, never having [...]

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I got an invite, forwarded by my MBA course director, to attend a meeting yesterday of the Forum on Private Business. A chance to rub shoulders with entrepreurs and some parliamentarians followed by a “parliamentary reception.” A few seats were reserved for students apparently.

On the bus ride to Parliament Square (the event was held here, [...]

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