The Oldie

A colour-supplement countryman? Me?

Leafing through a weekend colour supplement, I find that yet another former urbanite currently sees himself as a Wiltshire countryman.

This time, the famed chef and restaurateur Marco Pierre White was describing a typical Saturday at the hotel in Box Hill where he now lives and works.

I have a relationship with White – not that he knows it. I met the fan of stock cubes some years ago, while stumbling around the basement of

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from The Oldie

The Oldie3 min read
Walk Tall In High Heels
The late, great Sir Terry Wogan regularly broadcast to eight million listeners on his Radio 2 show, Wake Up to Wogan. One morning, Wogan drew listeners’ attention to a beauty advert splashed over London billboards. It boasted that the product in ques
The Oldie3 min read
Apocalypse Now?
Are we all doomed? A lot of publishers seem to think so. The only question, it sometimes seems, is whether it's going to be climate change, another pandemic, or murderous Terminator-style Artificial Intelligence that finishes us off first. But a hand
The Oldie2 min read
Lord Brooke CH (1934-2023)
Sir John Major paid tribute at St Margaret's, Westminster, to Peter Brooke. As Northern Ireland Secretary, he did much to start the talks with the IRA that led to the Good Friday Agreement. As Culture Secretary, he introduced legislation to launch th

Related Books & Audiobooks