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...Reading The Diaries of Henry “Chips” Channon, an account of the life and often outrageous times of this waspish insider to the world of the British elite, I found an honest confession....
...On Bighorn Bash and Stent we bounced over powder-clad “pillows”, which looked like enormous white marshmallows that had fallen out of the pocket of a passing giant....
...“It is fantastic that this sort of thing can exist in this age,” confided Chips Channon to his diary of de Redé’s parties....
...In this hopeless town, the cards are stacked against our adolescent quartet — Bear (D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai), Cheese (Lane Factor), Elora Danan Postoak (Devery Jacobs) and Willie Jack (Paulina Alexis) — although...
...Fifteen minutes later, we drifted past a flock of native bighorn sheep. An hour after that, lying back in my kayak, I saw a golden eagle sitting solemnly on the branch of a tree charred by fire....
...The industry likes to argue (a lot) about whether ordinary investors should be invested in passive funds or in active funds (I’d go for a bit of both)....
...The previous year he had received the French Légion d’Honneur....
...You’d think we were all gazing over land untouched by human hand or foot, and that this would surely be one of the most peaceful, uncontentious places on earth....
...She’d be demanding transparent and low costs across the board. No excuses....
...Mr Channon tells me that he doesn’t see any. He may be right – and I’d really like him to be. But we all know that there is at least some speculation....
...Perhaps, if the ’49ers had been lost in spring, we’d know it by a very different name....
...But what do we make of Channon, in the early days of his diary?...
...If that were someone’s chest, you’d have killed him,” said Tom, the ranch manager....
...In Revelstoke, British Columbia, attention is focusing on Bighorn (www.bighornrevelstoke.com), an opulent chalet for 16 with pool, spa, cinema and a private helipad....
...Mullin’s diaries have been compared to those of other celebrated diarists such as Alan Clark or Chips Channon....
...Dwight D. Eisenhower 82. Hugo Chávez 83, Olof Palme, Swedish PM, 1969-76, 1982-86 84. Kaiser Wilhelm II 85. Barack Obama 86. Sonia Gandhi 87....
...I was reminded of what Chips Channon wrote in his diary as Chamberlain fell: “The cataclysmic day has drawn to a welcome close and I am worn out, revolted by the ingratitude of my fellow men, nauseated by...
...Vision d’Etat is also good value each way at 8/1. But they’ll all have to go to catch the lady....
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