People and events

I DID NOT, in fact, spend the second half of May prone under a pastis barrel in South Brittany, as I forecast in the last issue, but only because the stuff does not, apparently, come in barrels, but in comfortable‐sized bottles, and very nice too! I can report that the weather was exactly what I had always believed to be the norm in late Spring (ie recent British November fare), that the French, who are pretty awful really, would like us to stay in the Common Market because, although they think we have gone mad, it is only thanks to Britain that nazism was broken, and that if you listen to BBC Radio 4's 6 o'clock news while sitting placidly in the sunshine of a Breton evening, you rapidly realise that the French are quite right, and that the British have gone stark raving mad. Try it!