When you send best wishes to us 'both', did you mean to include Irwin Stelzer (my beloved husband and regular Sunday Times columnist? I like to assume so, if OK with you.
'Have wealth that’s given, not hard-earned‘. So that's where C. Connolly got his line about 'money one has not had the bother of earning' as one of the foundations of the good life.
Oh yes, Martial. I still have that edition from, you guessed it, Oxford, that wonderful city of "dreaming spires" (I've never understood why it has this epitheton, but I enjoy imagining those in Lewis and Tolkien et al.) and still read in it after so many years of ownership and coming to know his saucy verses. But this particular poem is unknown to me. Thank you. Happy Christmas.
I look forward to everything you write in 2026! And with best wishes to you for all of 2026.
Thank you and very best to you both for 2026!
When you send best wishes to us 'both', did you mean to include Irwin Stelzer (my beloved husband and regular Sunday Times columnist? I like to assume so, if OK with you.
Cheers.
Yes exactly what I meant!
Wonderful poem, thank you! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours!
'Have wealth that’s given, not hard-earned‘. So that's where C. Connolly got his line about 'money one has not had the bother of earning' as one of the foundations of the good life.
Let us live by Martial’s words in 2026. Wonderful philosophy.
Excellent!
Oh yes, Martial. I still have that edition from, you guessed it, Oxford, that wonderful city of "dreaming spires" (I've never understood why it has this epitheton, but I enjoy imagining those in Lewis and Tolkien et al.) and still read in it after so many years of ownership and coming to know his saucy verses. But this particular poem is unknown to me. Thank you. Happy Christmas.
And to you!