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Milk in First
A recent article in the Sunday Telegraph describes its reporter’s experiences in a venture …at the Lanesborough hotel in London, which has recently launched an afternoon tea etiquette experience in partnership with Debrett’s, which has been Britain’s authority on etiquette and … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Diaries, Essays, Articles & Reviews, Letters, Newspapers
Tagged Afternoon Tea, Telegraph
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Death Announced of Wodehouse Society Founder
Lt-Col Norman Murphy, who founded the British branch of the P G Wodehouse Society, has died at the age of 83. According to the Telegraph, Murphy was a literary sleuth whose researches over four decades showed that Wodehouse’s 98 comic … Continue reading
Posted in A Handful of Dust, Adaptations, Film, Newspapers
Tagged Norman Murphy, P G Wodehouse Society, Telegraph, Times
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A knighthood, on the other hand, may have gone down nicely
Evelyn Waugh appears in the recently released list of people who have declined honours (as he would have spelt it). He refused the offer of a CBE in 1959. Allan Massie's blog post in The Telegraph provides some details and … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged 1959, Allan Massie, CBE, honors, honours, Telegraph
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