Shortly before leaving for our recent holiday in Venice we made the mistake of checking the weather forecast for that region and our hearts sank: thunderstorms were predicted for every day of that week, with the exception of our last day when the skies would again return to their customary acrylic blue and the temperatures [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Georgie Boy and Stevie Boy
July 16, 2007
The White House. The 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, meets Steve Hadley, National Security Adviser.
SH: Mr President, I have some good news and some bad news.
GWB: Okay, give me the good news first.
SH: Sir, our analysts have looked at the situation in Iraq and concluded that if things [...]
Wimbledon, rain and other interruptions
July 9, 2007
I am watching a Wimbledon tennis match on television, grateful that for once the rain has stayed away, when she walks in, her usual energetic self, an English jumping bean caught in a hurricane, and, as usual, still buzzing from quotidian office events. She is one of the few people I’ve ever come across who appears [...]
