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Darcy is high-maintenance, so I decided to leave her in the posh livery yard, with its luxuriant shavings beds and…
High life
As Jacob Rees-Mogg said in a different context, a happy birthday at my age is a terminological inexactitude. I needed…
Real life
Easier by far to load up my horses and move them to the next village than try to fight the…
Low life
On Sunday morning we went, Oscar and I, to a vide grenier in the ancient, picturesque Provençal village. Vide grenier…
High life
Greece is jasmine, bougainvillea, mimosa, cypress, olive, pine, oregano and sage, rock, sand, wine, fruit and the bluest and cleanest…
Low life
My grandson and I are reprising the 1968 film The Swimmer. Burt Lancaster is an advertising executive at a pool…
Real life
Like Steve McQueen gone slightly to seed, the builder boyfriend strode off into the sunset. Nothing becomes him so much…
High life
I’ve stayed far away from the new barbarians with their choppers, tank-like cars, home theatres on board, and fridge-shaped super…
Low life
Five and the Red One are a German covers band. It’s probably the most uninspiring name for a rock band…
Real life
‘This situation is Rorke’s Drift,’ said the builder boyfriend, after our proposed renovations were objected to at the parish council’s…
Low life
‘We are always waiting for somebody,’ observed a vexed British journalist. Usually it was me they were waiting for, but…
Low life
The hen party was seated at an outside restaurant table under the plane trees when I arrived. They sat with…
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‘What do you think it means?’ I asked the builder boyfriend as we stood in front of the sign. A…
High life
I was going through my paces in Hyde Park, sweating out the booze, raising the heartbeat with short wind sprints,…
A man of his Times - the curious case of Lord Finkelstein
Ennobled after loyal service to the government, Lord Finkelstein embodies the collapse of boundaries between newspapers and politics
