Peter Rhodes on a TV tribute, hunting antiques and a word to send us rushing for a dictionary
Tributes of our time. “She is eloquent . . . to a certain extent, she’s a throwback.
"She’s like a vintage car in an age when everyone’s turning electric.” Publicist Mark Bukowki, describing Clare Balding.
Looking for a new (by which I mean, old) desk in an antiques shop, I was struck by how few desks they had and what a huge selection of unsold dining tables. A friend in the business says it's all about social change.
More people are working from home and are snapping up desks, while demand for dining tables has plummeted because families no longer eat together. A nation of diners has become a land of WFH sofa-grazers.
