9 September 2010
It seems that I might well have underplayed of my friend’s daughter’s book Sister. I suggested that she sent details to my friend in Dubai, Jeremy Brinton, who is managing director of Magrudy’s, who runs 13 book shops in the UAE. He may well be interested in stocking this book –nothing ventured nothing, nothing gained. […]
10 September 2010
Thank goodness my electric UpEasy cushion was returned today, or rather a new replacement for the one sent for repair. It’s amazing how  one comes to rely on these gadgets. I often wonder how I managed before.. Of course, the problem now is that we depend a great deal upon electricity. I shudder to think […]
8 September 2010
Some very good news for my friend Kit’s daughter, Rosamund Lupton. Her first novel was published on the 2 September, in the UK, and in the first week, WH Smiths apparently sold 22,000 copies. I gather that the book has already been translated and published in a number of other languages and that negotiations may well […]
7 September 2010
7 September 2010 Â Another geriatric golf day. I very nearly didn’t go because of the appalling weather forecast, however, in the event, we had wall-to-wall sunshine all day. I rode with Griggsy who played a single against my good friend John Gray. It was a happy three hours and we sat outside the clubhouse, […]
6 September 2010
6 September 2010 I got to the bottom of the swingeing reduction in my pension payments, by ringing the Inland Revenue. Apparently, it’s all to do with a tax change resulting from my SIPP (Self Invested Personal Pension) kicking in last August. Just to cheer me up the tax inspector told me that an assessment […]
5 September 2010
5 September 2010 We went out to lunch today to a modest local café. We sat outside, braced against the autumnal chill, so that I could smoke a small cigar. When it came to ordering lunch it had a Fawlty Towers ring about it as, from a very limited menu our first two choices ‘were […]
4 September 2010
Today, I finished the draft of the speech which I started yesterday, for the 20th Anniversary Dinner on the Arbitration Club, on 23rd September. This was a rather poignant undertaking as this dinner will be my swan song, almost certainly from formal occasions, of The Arbitration Club, of which, for the next two years or […]
1 September 2010
I managed OK after my fall yesterday, so no real harm done. However I’m rethinking the two visits that I was going to make to the Arbitration Club, in London in London next week. Keith Kirkwood was originally intending to accompany and assist me but now, unexpectedly, has to go to New Zealand on business […]
31 August 2010
31 August 2010 Yesterday was the August Bank holiday Monday, At one stage, we had thought it might have gone out and had lunch and then decided that the world and his wife would also be on the same track and opted for required then returning catching up.  Tuesday’s come round fast and I was […]
29 August 2010
Being a Bank holiday weekend, Chloe, Karl on the three little ones came down to spend the weekend with us. Fred, the oldest, had a very special treat by being taken to Lord’s on a Saturday which as I explained to him was probably one of the best days cricket cricket he will see […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato