People are always asking for politicians with real convictions …
Fun times with fun people – including Mary Berry, @clarebalding, Michele, & Brian Finch. the chairman of @EpsomRacecourse .. talk about finding yourself in the right paddock! (I think one of Clare’s forebears started the Epsom Derby!)
A lovely start to the day with my friend @sianwelby – we met years ago (but can’t quite remember how!) & we’ve been reunited on @thismorning this morning. A fun one!
A happy snap of @alicearnold1 & @clarebalding at @EpsomRacecourse today. We were their grateful & excited guests at the #EpsomDerby & we spent the day feeling we were in life’s winners’ enclosure!
Jumping for joy! Excited, delighted & honoured to meet up with the great Willie Carson, a four times winner of the #EpsomDerby – who last won the race thirty years ago in 1994.
I’m very blessed. I really have known them all. I’m off to the races tomorrow and very excited. Goodnight!
The view from right here right now! Aren’t I lucky?
Brooding about what to wear for the Bank Holiday @thismorning … my wife has just said, “Anything but dungarees’” The four most important words in the English language: “Listen to your wife”
Saddened to hear of the death of The Very Reverend Stephen Smalley, a distinguished scholar, a fine Dean of Chester, & a delightful man who became a good friend & mentor when I was MP for the City of Chester in the 1990s. @ChesterCath & @uochester will mourn him, too
Inspired by my sweater, a couple of thoughts from the great Walt Disney …
And now …
The story a light lunch in five snaps …
The story a light lunch in five snaps …
The story a light lunch in five snaps …
The story a light lunch in five snaps …
“I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I’ve enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.” – Sean O’Casey (I stay happy by keeping the company of happy people.) Good morning!
Right here, right now: sharing a book signing session with fellow royal biographer Robert Hardman at @Arundells in Salisbury Close. A piece of cake.
Good morning!
I’ll be getting my tips from the top today … #EpsomDerby here we come!
Check Mate by Mark Graham The Royal Mail is up for sale Five billion pounds the fee Kretinsky wants to take it on If parties can agree He’ll have to meet conditions If not his bid is toast But if he proves successful Then the Czech is in the post
I love a civilised conversation with an interesting human being. They don’t get much more civilised or interesting than @RevRichardColes … I’ve just been listening to him for an hour. He’s quite remarkable. Listen to this if you can find the time. Goodnight.
The day at the desk was going so well – until the beach ball of doom brought everything to a halt. Sometimes all you can do is cock a snook at life. It’s after six. Sparkling tea here I come!
Your weekend podcast … with the man many reckon has the most brilliant brain in Britain: Sir Martin Rees @therosebudpodcast
🌞So…Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs….a stone cold classic.. First published in 1968, Sun Signs, was the first astrology book to hit the mainstream and, as the books current publisher modestly states, Linda brought metaphysical consciousness to millions of readers around the world for the first time. Sun Signs made the New York Times bestseller list and its success spawned a wave of horoscopes in the dailies and women’s magazines. Linda, who was also a writer, poet and radio host, went on to publish multiple astrology books. At last count there were 60 million copies of her books out there in the world…so not too shabby. Linda’s real name was Mary Alice Kearney and she died, aged 70, in 1995. Right onto the book itself…. With a foreword that gives a brief overview of how sun signs works, the real strength of ‘Sun Signs’ is the writing: easy to read, never dry and packed full of over-the-top analogies and turns of phrase. It’s simple to follow structure and rolling style give it a narrative quality you can lose yourself in. She doesn’t go too much into the practicalities of the astrology – the whys and wherefores but who cares when Linda can tell me about my dodgy ankles, ethereal nature and distant relationships. To summarise: Sun Signs is the ultimate classic. Are there more modern astrology books that delve deeper and look at your rising this and the moon of that, books that reference Harry Styles rather than Louis Pasteur? Yes, of course, and I’d like to hear your thoughts and recommendations about those but for me Linda Goodman is astrology’s Jilly Cooper – comforting, a little bit naughty, a little bit eccentric, essentially outdated but she creates a world I want to return to time and time again. CB💚🦜💚 #bookclub #astrology #sunsigns #wellness #yoga #spiritual #bookstagram #selfcare #selfhelp #charityschoice #femalefounder #reviews #bookreviews #yoga #minfulness #aquarius #classic
