nd SaudiA great photo opportunity: you standing in a wadi with a rod in one hand and a salmon in the other-what an image that would be!PeterMemoFrom:Prime ministerTo:Director of communicationsSubject:Yemensalmon projectPeter,I like it. The photo idea is great!
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Extracts from the diary of Dr Alfred Jones: his wedding anniversary7 JuneUntil today, my diary has for the most part been used to record the times of meetings, appointments with the dentist, or other engagements. But for the last few months I have felt the need to set down some of the thoughts that come and go, the increasing sense of intellectual and emotional restlessness which has grown in me as I approach middle age. Today’s date marks our wedding anniversary. Mary and I have been married now for over twenty years. It seems right, somehow, to start recording the pattern of my daily existence. Perhaps it will help me find a perspective from which I can appreciate and value my life more than I am able to just at present.For Mary’s anniversary present, I have bought her a subscription to The Economist, which I know she enjoys reading but begrudges the cost of buying for herself. She bought me a replacement brush for my electric toothbrush, which is most useful. I never think much about anniversaries. The years pass seamlessly. But for some reason tonight I feel I ought to reflect on what is now many years of marriage to Mary. We married not long after leaving Oxford. It was not a whirlwind romance, but I think ours has been a calm and settled relationship suitable for two rational and career-minded people such as ourselves.We are both humanists, professionals and scientists. Mary’s science is the analysis of risks inherent in the movement of cash and credit arou
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Extracts from the diary of Dr Alfred Jones: his wedding anniversary7 JuneUntil today, my diary has for the most part been used to record the times of meetings, appointments with the dentist, or other engagements. But for the last few months I have felt the need to set down some of the thoughts that come and go, the increasing sense of intellectual and emotional restlessness which has grown in me as I approach middle age. Today’s date marks our wedding anniversary. Mary and I have been married now for over twenty years. It seems right, somehow, to start recording the pattern of my daily existence. Perhaps it will help me find a perspective from which I can appreciate and value my life more than I am able to just at present.For Mary’s anniversary present, I have bought her a subscription to The Economist, which I know she enjoys reading but begrudges the cost of buying for herself. She bought me a replacement brush for my electric toothbrush, which is most useful. I never think much about anniversaries. The years pass seamlessly. But for some reason tonight I feel I ought to reflect on what is now many years of marriage to Mary. We married not long after leaving Oxford. It was not a whirlwind romance, but I think ours has been a calm and settled relationship suitable for two rational and career-minded people such as ourselves.We are both humanists, professionals and scientists. Mary’s science is the analysis of risks inherent in the movement of cash and credit arou
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