I am currently reading a book called All Souls and Appeasement, a study of how the former influenced the latter and well, we are just so, so far from that today, aren't we?

I like to think that he’s in St Valery taking Fortune’s surrender and having his offer of sharing lunch declined

V v kind!! I hope you enjoyed the Irish bits especially – I think there’s probably a whole second volume to be done extending them

Incidentally I am available to talk on this subject to anyone at mostly any time and would love to do

Less extraordinary, I admit – bringing one rather back down to earth with a bump – is standing from Darlington to Doncaster to get home, but there we go