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*Randy* Giles? Why not just call me Horny Giles or Desperate-For-A-Shag Giles? I knew there was a reason I hated you.
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Edit: Although the Scots are awesome, in a recent trip up to Scotland, I met messrs, Cummings, Balloch and Cockburn.
Just a reminder: BBC2 9.30 pm, Andrew Neil on Scottish Indy Referendum and its impact on rUK.
Some of his tweets, may shock your innocent mind
https://twitter.com/Grabcocque
Who is winning the betting war: Ladbrokes or William Hill?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/leisure/11028371/Who-is-winning-the-betting-war-Ladbrokes-or-William-Hill.html
Anything that involves a mound of dead Frenchmen is peachy with me.
Although a Slovakian colleague of mine tells me that peachy means a much different word in his language. Something to do with a 'lady garden' by all accounts.
Can I also interrupt this message to profer sincere apologies to those I played diplomacy with, I started a new job in April and the 8 hours of total commuting each day which was only meant to last about 3 weeks until the office move turned into 3 months and I was too exhausted when I got home to do much more than sleep thus causing me to miss many deadlines as also sites like diplomacy are blocked at work and I dont do smartphones as yet
Mr. Financier, cheers for that heads up, I had no idea it was on.
Re the diplomacy thing. No problem these happen to us all. Maybe a note explaining the situation during the game might have relieved the frustrations a tad.
And TSE, thanks for no. 16. I told you that the War of the Spanish Succession was a fun war, as wars go. By the way, I'm sure when I was a kid I was taught a useful mnemonic* for remembering the battles of the war (Blenheim, Ramilles, Malplaquet and Oudenarde) - can anyone help?
* A bit like "Able Bodied Seamen Catch Hairy Pirates" as a way to remember Henry VI's wives (Aragon, Boleyn, Seymour, Cleeves, Howard, Parr)
BBC2 prog on Scotland's vote on now.
By the way to Mr Dancer. Havent forgotten the list just havent had time to make it yet due to the aforementioned problems
2. Lynton did well with Boris, but Boris probably would have done well anyway. I'm not sure Lynton really understands the sensibilities of British voters Vs Aussie votes. He's better than anything Labour has though.
3. We all [heart] Boris.
4. Owen who?
5. Sir John has a point, as usual.
6. I think George Osborne's slow motion take-over of the government to be very Brownian and rather sinister.
7. Great. More taxes on energy, flying, petrol, business, etc... But how does that help the "cost of living crisis?"
8. We need to get fracking.
9. Salmond needs to man up!
10. Any money that's not spent by Better Together could go into the Conservative Party?
11. Ultimately the only people responsible for committing suicide are those that do it.
12. Perhaps taking on ISIS will allow us to purge our sin's Re. Iraq?
13. Go Theresa.
14. Shame the NOTW isn't exposing judges still.
15. Brit's are nuts when it comes to animals versus humans.
16. I do wonder whether at the start of WW1 we should have let Germany have France. France has always been our enemy, historically.
17. Do we care?
[I have forgotten what 'the list' refers to. Did we arrange a number of assassinations?]
After yesterday, a 4% Labour lead or less will seem like progress.
Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain (or Roy G Biv) for the order of colours of the rainbow.
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But the Grand Tour idea does sound tempting!
Al Maliki is reportedly going to step aside as Iraqi PM after the Iranians kindly guaranteed he will still have a role in the political scene and wont face prosecution for some of his mis-demeanours during his term in office.
Stories have it that some of his associated militias have left the streets.
We await to see if he does indeed step aside.
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OK, not really the same, but saying them as words works.
Re the London trip, I concur with Mr. Putney's suggestion of the National Portrait Gallery followed by an early dinner at the Wolseley. Two things though.
Firstly in a couple of hours you will get through one period, one set of rooms at the NPG, no more. So if you are going there I'd plan ahead as to what period interests you most and go for that. On a similar basis you might think about planning a trip to the National next door and arriving a bit earlier to have lunch there. I rather like the restaurant in the Sainsbury wing at the National (not the self-service cafeteria but the sit down and be served nicely restaurant, make sure you book to get a table with a fine view over Trafalgar Square).
Secondly the Wolseley restaurant as recommended by Mr Putney is jolly good indeed but it is not the sort of place you want to rush. So you might want to check the time of the concert. I am noot sure you'll have time for a meal at the Wolseley and get to the concert.
Why not go somewhere for tea. Fortnums is my favourite, not as pretnetious or expensive as the Ritz or Claridges, but still best to book especially this time of year. Then after tea go the concert and then come back for super at the Wolseley, last orders is about midnight from memory.
Lunch the national, tea at Fortnums and Supper at the Wolseley: Mrs Jessop will go to bed contentedly full.
Can't really help with where to stay. I don't stay up in Town much these days. A chum of mine who does swears by a place called Le Capital, in Basil Street just along from the back of Harrods. Its the only place his missus, a Dutch lady with seriously good taste and in bucket loads, will stay in London. He is seriously wealthy, so I have no idea what the prices are like. Claridges and the like I would avoid, they are over-run with very wealthy but very unpleasant people these days. Best avoided.
Then there's always Dog: Caesar had some jam for tea, Brutus ate a rat.
#weremember
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YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead down one to three points: CON 35%, LAB 38%, LD 8%, UKIP 11%
It was the Islamophobe that really amused me.
(Medical School - Cranial Nerves I - XII)
Also thanks for the hotel suggestions. I've stayed in a couple of posh ones in London in the past, but not for well over a decade. I'd never even contemplated Claridges and the like - I'd always assumed they weren't really for the likes of me.
Mrs J did not like my suggestion that I pitch my North Face Westwind tent in Victoria Embankment Gardens. Even for me, that would be pushing 'wild' camping. But it would be a memorable night, and at least the cells would be nice and warm... ;-)
Voters are "frustrated" by Mr Miliband and have been left with “absolutely no awareness” of the “summer offensive” launched by Labour in recent weeks, according to the Conservative research seen by The Daily Telegraph.
Many of the people who took part in the research, carried out in the Midlands this month, are swing voters who voted for Labour at the last election, it is understood.
Mr Miliband “remains voters’ greatest hesitation against voting Labour”, the research found.
“Voters are increasingly emotive in their annoyance towards Miliband who is providing them with no alternative choice. He remains voters’ greatest hesitation against voting Labour.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11029688/Ed-Milibands-weak-leadership-is-swing-voters-biggest-concern-research-shows.html
The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do
The Moh Scale of hardness for minerals
Talc
Gypsum
Calcite
Fluorite
Apatite
Orthoclase
Quartz
Topaz
Corundum
Diamond
Mr. Jessop if the National is not enough of a wow and you have done the NPG I am at a bit of a loss. Given your penchant for engineering there is the Science Museum, but I doubt Mrs Jessop would be impressed and this time of year it is over-run with foreign children hunting in great packs. Also I have no idea of where you'd get a decent luncheon in Kensington.
IT was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was sitting in the sun;
And by him sported on the green 5
His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
She saw her brother Peterkin
Roll something large and round,
Which he beside the rivulet
In playing there had found: 10
He came to ask what he had found
That was so large and smooth and round.
Old Kaspar took it from the boy,
Who stood expectant by;
And then the old man shook his head, 15
And with a natural sigh—
"'Tis some poor fellow's skull," said he,
"Who fell in the great victory.
"I find them in the garden,
For there's many here about; 20
And often when I go to plough
The ploughshare turns them out.
For many thousand men," said he,
"Were slain in that great victory."
"Now tell us what 'twas all about," 25
Young Peterkin he cries;
And little Wilhelmine looks up
With wonder-waiting eyes;
"Now tell us all about the war,
And what they fought each other for." 30
"It was the English," Kaspar cried,
"Who put the French to rout;
But what they fought each other
I could not well make out.
But everybody said," quoth he, 35
"That 'twas a famous victory.
"My father lived at Blenheim then,
Yon little stream hard by;
They burnt his dwelling to the ground,
And he was forced to fly: 40
So with his wife and child he fled,
Nor had he where to rest his head.
"With fire and sword the country round
Was wasted far and wide,
And many a childing mother then 45
And newborn baby died:
But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.
"They say it was a shocking sight
After the field was won, 50
For many thousand bodies here
Lay rotting in the sun;
But things like that, you know, must be
After a famous victory.
"Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, 55
And our good Prince Eugene"—
"Why 'twas a very wicked thing!"
Said little Welhelmine;
"Nay—nay, my little girl," quoth he,
"It was a famous victory. 60
"And everybody praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win"—
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why that I cannot tell," said he, 65
"But 'twas a famous victory."
Normally for this kind of thing I'd recommend La Poule Au Pot (you go for the ambiance rather than the food which is good French peasant food) http://www.pouleaupot.co.uk/index.htm It'd be about £50-60 a head, including wine.
The Ledbury is always fun: casually swish (or should that be swishly casual?), more of a people watching joint, and you may be lucky to get a table at this short notice. It's expensive though - £90 for a four course evening menu plus wines. You may get better value at lunchtime though http://www.theledbury.com/
Sally Clarke's has always been a personal favorite, although I haven't been in a couple of years. Concept there was you used to turn up and you'd get whatever Sally had cooked that day (make sure you get a table upstairs). They tried introducing a la carte, but that seems less differentiated. www.sallyclarke.com
Hotels I'm not a good person: I usually just stay in a chain hotel (Hyatt, Hilton, etc) rather than anywhere particularly flash. I'm more interested in functionality and space than paying up for a dirty rug on the floor or a tiny room in an achingly trendy joint.
Something like 54 will cost you around £150 a night for a double room http://www.fiftyfourboutiquehotel.co.uk). Or you could go to the Radisson Vanderbilt which will be more conventional for a similar price. (http://www.radissonblu-edwardian.com/feature.do?feature=ourhotels)
Ladbrokes have two major problems -- first, their increasing reluctance to take a bet; second, their website really is not fit for purpose.
Sort it Shadsy!
Has she heard of someone called Vladimir Putin?
- If you like museums, I'd suggest something a little more off the beaten track than the NG or NPG; more human scale. Personally I always like the Wallace which manages to combine suits of armour with Fragonard and Boucher in an almost coherent way (www.wallacecollection.org/). Alternatively, the Courtauld has a good collection which many people miss (www.courtauld.ac.uk)
- For something a bit different, you might like the Gilbert Collection at the V&A (www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/the-rosalinde-and-arthur-gilbert-collection)
- Alternatively you could wait until January and come to see the collection of Lancashire mummies and Roman coins that we are putting on display at Temple Place ;-)
If you don't like museums so much, have you ever been on the London Eye? if the weather is good then it can be a really interesting panorama if that's your sort of thing.
Hope that helps...!
We expect a full report...
The London Eye and that stretch of the South Bank along to Southwark might do very nicely for a younger couple. My son took his girlfriend there the other week and they had a very enjoyable few hours. The weather would have to be good though.
But do you remember why "Twenty Zulus Buggered My Cat"
Argh, why couldn't he have just quit for "family reasons" rather than saying "oh I couldn't afford to live on my immense salary+benefits". Idiot.
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/08/12/brits-are-more-likely-help-their-pet-man-or-teenag/
Far more likely to be a piece of focus group research that has been selectively briefed to the Telegraph.
I assume that focus groups are not covered by the BPC rules on publishing though?
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4174699.ece
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http://order-order.com/2014/08/12/watch-robin-williams-on-iraq/
Fortnums is good and is near the Royal Academy ( a good mixture) or in that area have a look in one of the private art dealers. For more window shopping walk through the Burlington Arcade and pop into Aspreys who are very amenable to visitors and Mrs JJ can cast her eye on that future anniversary present.
To stay, a boutique hotel like 54, or a room in a modern private club like Home House in Portman Square which can be arranged for non-members.