The good news on the NHS, though, is that, according to this poltroon, GPs are operating 'gentlemen's agreements'. I hope they are; there are far too few gentlemen's agreements - or indeed gentlemen - these days.
True on both accounts, I think. Speaking of things that there are too few of, ice cream shops where the ice cream is made on-site are another. A gelato-maker is officially opening right next door to the 99 Cleaners on Holland Park Av. on Saturday. I saw them preparing the fresh fruit and turn it into gelato this morning. The strawberry was fabulous.
I had an agreement with a gentleman once, trouble is he was my bank manager, thing is though, Lloyds, his employers, were a bunch of lousy stinking bastards. the real gentlemen today are women, especially those who hang around York Minster at weekends and don't wear hair products. I had another gentlemans agreement (or a strategic alliance as we in the trade call it) with an Italian, a real old fashioned gent, wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw Bergamo. Did meet a real gent in the seventies, Lawrence Pilkington (the bod who gave you float glass and night vision optics), he then bought out my biggest customer, turn out to be a real pain. Ain't sure about gents Nige.
Nige, who, like Mr Kenneth Horne, prefers to remain anonymous, was also a founder blogger of The Dabbler and a co-blogger on the Bryan Appleyard Thought Experiments blog. He is the sole blogger on this one, and his principal aim is to share various of life's pleasures. These tend to relate to books, art, poems, butterflies, birds, churches, music, walking, weather, drink, etc, with occasional references to the passing scene. His book, The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death, is available on Amazon or direct from the author.
True on both accounts, I think. Speaking of things that there are too few of, ice cream shops where the ice cream is made on-site are another. A gelato-maker is officially opening right next door to the 99 Cleaners on Holland Park Av. on Saturday. I saw them preparing the fresh fruit and turn it into gelato this morning. The strawberry was fabulous.
ReplyDeletethat's excellent news Randy - I must pay a visit...
ReplyDeleteI had an agreement with a gentleman once, trouble is he was my bank manager, thing is though, Lloyds, his employers, were a bunch of lousy stinking bastards. the real gentlemen today are women, especially those who hang around York Minster at weekends and don't wear hair products. I had another gentlemans agreement (or a strategic alliance as we in the trade call it) with an Italian, a real old fashioned gent, wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw Bergamo. Did meet a real gent in the seventies, Lawrence Pilkington (the bod who gave you float glass and night vision optics), he then bought out my biggest customer, turn out to be a real pain. Ain't sure about gents Nige.
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