Oh. You want something Economic? Go read this Sunday's Home section in the Times. The lovely French home featured had me on the phone last night. It is owned by Dragon's Denner Duncan Bannatyne and he is hopping mad about paying top-of-the-market prices for it. So much, that he has terribly rudely insulted my Very Blonde girlfriend's father, who was the previous owner. Clearly, VB girlfriend's dad is a bit of a Dragon slayer. I have do have a soft spot for Glaswegian men, but, in this case, an anonymous man winning over a man who has made his investing very public is one of those nice kinds of victories people use as plot devices in children's storybooks. Moral? Always. Modesty and self-belief can go hand in hand and are a successful combination. Steely business skills are the part they probably left out of the children's version. Pity.
Monday, 29 June 2009
Frogs, Tea, and Dragon Slayers...
It is rather dull out there in market-land and looks to remain so for the summer. There is a host of good data due from America this week, so, there will be something to talk about later. In the meantime, I've been busy reading about the case of the one legged frogs here on the BBC. What else? Dead Bankers from Clapham here at (apologies) The Daily Mail. And something cheerful? Put the kettle on. Tea is good for you, according to the BBC here.
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Nice to see the tea news resurfacing three years later! This happens periodically on the BBC...one of their old articles gets featured somewhere, finds its way into the top ten stories and stays there due to people who only click on the top ten stories. There must be a bit of theory there about network effects.
I liked your pictures by the way...particularly How to Build a Wall and Folkekirken. I see there are some new ones up there...I am trying to figure out what I think of Whitechapel.
yeah. old news is good news. we do need our old comforts...I could not find any "good news" this am...at least in my haste...i think i have read that tea article at least 5 times in the past few years...
sweet you like the paintings - whitechapel is a chameleon, dependent on the angle viewed...the colour and composition changes...it is one of those places with so many referentials and ways of thinking about...(and, on a landscape level, the nature is squashed in there)...it is supposed to leave you thinking this way and that way a bit, so, your comment makes me think that I got it where I was hoping it to be...
thanks -
Duncan Bannatyne is a very silly man who needs to stop wittering on about how much he had to pay for his bloody villa and how much it costs to run a year (that was in some supplement somewhere last weekend). Apropos of nothing at all he mentions it at every opportunity and as it was somewhere I enjoyed spending my summers over 7 years, it is rather like having salt rubbed in the wound.
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