It’s all go here in London, believe me. This evening I had an experience which has never come my way in nearly 47 years of living here. My bus driver got lost. I had just left my partne, who is …
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Will Maurabella go to the ball?
This is a true story that really cheered me up after the barrage of tripe in the media about celebrities or sub-celebrities, many of whom seem pretty trashy people, inculcating worthless values. Maybe you will like it too. My partner’s …
Read MoreDenny Hatch supplies the last word on MBAs
Thanks for the comments, especially the funny ones, but special thanks to the most relevant one from Denny Hatch, who simply sent me the following, which came as a glorious confirmation of many long held suspicions. Tuesday, march 21, 2006Are …
Read MoreTo Amanda, because I’m an idiot
No, this is not a loving message – just a confession, and a suggestion. Although I can read your comments (and really appreciate them) I can’t or don’t know how to reply, so the confession is that probably I’m an …
Read MorePoltergeists and animal crackers
Logorrhea, I was told at school, is the word for people who can’t stop talking. I’m afraid I have the literary equivalent; just can’t stop writing. For a while I was banging out a good 6 columns a month for …
Read MoreThe growth of a silly new Christmas game
White Christmases are rare and church visits in pagan Britain rarer still, but every year I notice a new yuletide tradition burgeoning. You see the first signs in the newspapers around the 18th of December. As regular as clockwork headlines …
Read MoreA London Christmas for you
Well, I had an idea last week – always a mistake. I commissioned a photographer to bring a fresh eye to the London I love at Christmas – which she certainly has. See what you think. Just go to http://www.draytonbird.net/xmas/xmas.html… …
Read MoreWould you accept this invitation?
About 20 years ago when I was clearly a lot more distinguished than I am now, I was, to my great surprise and childish delight, told I was to be included in Who’s Who. Normally I would have thought this …
Read MoreAdvice from the dead on how to party down
Just to follow up my little squib about banks, here are extracts from a message about “party etiquette” sent to its hapless employees by one big US bank. “After a good year’s work, you’re entitled to let loose with your …
Read More“Pump up the volume”
You can’t beat a load of old bollocks to cheer me up, friends. Sheer childlike delight overcame the jet-lag today when I read in the gossip column of Italy’s leading newspaper that whoever does these things at Armani had done …
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