Today we went to Sir Edward Heath's outstanding home in Salisbury Cathedral Close for his birthday lunch. It is vary rare that ordinary mortals meet a genuine politician, and Sir Edward is the genuine article. He is very much liked and respected by those who work for him, which is always a recommendation. Sir Edward has a deep love of music, which I instinctively trust (somewhat unsurprisingly), and his home is a treasure.
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In the closing minutes of the men's final at Wimbledon, shortly before Pete Sampras took the title, the umpire was calling out: "No flash photographs please!".
"Better to be present with a bad note than absent from a good note."
