One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
"There is nothing--absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Ratty in The Wind in the Willows
The spring time adventures of Ratty and Mole on the banks of the Thames (a big hello to Lord Norman Foster of Thames Bank) in The Wind in the Willows was and still is one of your scribe’s favourite books. Its author Kenneth Grahame spent a career in banking which culminated with him in the position of Secretary of the Bank of England. On retirement, having worked the financial horizons, he began “messing about with boats” and put pen to paper writing the bed time stories that he had told his son as a child. Ratty as a character is wonderful and who can resist Mr.Toad.
They say that the acronym BOAT stands for Bring On Another Thousand….and as any poor chap that has every invested in a boat knows, that’s just the start of it!!!!
Your scribe spent some time working in that town that’s so nice they named it twice…New York New York. On occasions, I was lucky enough to have escaped the rat race of NYC and visited the prestigious Newport Yacht Club to sail or to mess about in motor boats. Today’s links are chrome propeller blades and come from Newport. They are worn with a Brooks’s Brothers cotton shirt and a Gianni Versace silk neck tie.
Til later
ONWARD
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series….
"There is nothing--absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Ratty in The Wind in the Willows
The spring time adventures of Ratty and Mole on the banks of the Thames (a big hello to Lord Norman Foster of Thames Bank) in The Wind in the Willows was and still is one of your scribe’s favourite books. Its author Kenneth Grahame spent a career in banking which culminated with him in the position of Secretary of the Bank of England. On retirement, having worked the financial horizons, he began “messing about with boats” and put pen to paper writing the bed time stories that he had told his son as a child. Ratty as a character is wonderful and who can resist Mr.Toad.
They say that the acronym BOAT stands for Bring On Another Thousand….and as any poor chap that has every invested in a boat knows, that’s just the start of it!!!!
Your scribe spent some time working in that town that’s so nice they named it twice…New York New York. On occasions, I was lucky enough to have escaped the rat race of NYC and visited the prestigious Newport Yacht Club to sail or to mess about in motor boats. Today’s links are chrome propeller blades and come from Newport. They are worn with a Brooks’s Brothers cotton shirt and a Gianni Versace silk neck tie.
Til later
ONWARD
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