SO farewell, then, the X90 coaches to London – set to be withdrawn in the new year because the service just won’t pay its way.
Reviewing the Cherwell Boathouse on its 25th anniversary, I identified this popular North Oxford restaurant as a venerable institution for foodies – a term recently coined at the time – alongside, among others, the Elizabeth and the Luna Caprese.
Two recent experiences have demonstrated to me that we now exist in a very different world media-wise from that to which I have been accustomed in half a century of the inky trade.
It was Gray Matter wot done it, if I may be so bold – and boastful – as to borrow and paraphrase the famous Sun headline recording John Major’s surprise defeat of Neil Kinnock in the 1992 General Election.
From the worry-free wonderland of our Greek holiday island, where these words are being written, we greet troubles at home with a nonchalant shrug, in the smug satisfaction that these problems aren’t ours – at least for the present.
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and other denizens of Tombstone, Arizona, in the later years of the 19th century were not only gunslingers but gourmets – slightly surprising intelligence I have derived from a book I feel just as surprised to have read.
BILL Heine was ever the most modest of men, though he had plenty to be immodest about had he so wished. But the idea of being involved in anything any way grand, while it always seemed a little odd to him, rather tickled him too.
The eating habits of the Romans as revealed in the excavations at Pompeii is the subject of the fabulous exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Last Supper at Pompeii, which I urge everyone to see during the months (till January 12) it still has to run.
THE scaffolding is starting to be removed from Oxford University’s controversial Castle Mill flats after a £6m external revamp designed to make them less of an eyesore.
Oxford’s Randolph Hotel plays a significant role in the annals of fictional crime for figuring in episodes of ITV’s Inspector Morse and its sequels, and moreover as a place of refreshment for their stars.
