Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist

Prince Philip accepts the insignia of the Order of Canada from David Johnston, the Governor-General During a short visit to Canada the...

A regular round-up of my book news. What I've been reading this week... I continued with Parting Shots . What I've bough...

Hard on the tail of my 150th post and 8 months into the life of the blog, we've had our 10,000th page view (10,013 at the time of w...

  Today is St George's Day, the celebration of the patron of the Order of the Garter, and the day on which new companions of the o...

Lately I've been following several historical war-gaming and miniatures blogs in my copious spare time. One thing that strikes me is t...

What I've been reading this week.... I finished Men Whose Fathers Were Men: The story of a hobby by Centurion (Col Reginald Branwhite...

For those interested, a MoD press release gives full details of the members of the bearer party, down to their ages and home towns.  It ...

Just a few jottings on the Thatcher funeral that occur to me on watching the ceremony and looking at photos. I'm not going to comment ...

A regular round-up of my book news. What I've bought this week.... Peter Galloway, The Order of the British Empire - £10.00 Matth...

I had a bit of a jiffy bag dance this week.  I received some more miniatures. First from the Perrys' range, which I've been impres...

Today is Tom Lehrer's 85th birthday.  Here are a couple of my favourites -

This is the 150th post to this blog! Although I haven't blogged with the same boyish enthusiasm as I did when I started last Augus...

A regularish update of my book news. What I've been reading this week... I seem to have very little time to read these days, but thi...

Another thing I didn't blog about during my little hiatus was the latest batch of medal auctions from the 'Big Four'.  On Monday...

A regular(ish) round-up of my book news. What I've bought this week... Doreen J Waugh, The Faces of Orkney: Stones, Skalds and Saint...

Last month I blogged about the Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year. I'm pleased to say that one of the books that I th...

Over at the Royal Order of Sartorial Splendor blog there's an interesting post on the royal attendees of the Pope Francis' inaugural...

I should have blogged about the Archbishop of Canterbury's enthronement on Thursday.  For one thing there's an interesting point to...

Apologies to those of you who come to this blog looking at things royalty-related (and I see from the visitor stats that this is is the ...

Thanks for those who got in touch with me with suggestions when I said the other day that I wasn't quite sure what to do with the st...