I’m out on a course today. As you have no doubt come to realise I’m not one to shirk my responsibilities. A brief selection of Nomura’s research output this week duly follows. However, you may have to do without this email next week as I will be off on holiday. I mentioned it in last week’s missive. I wasn’t looking forward to it very much. My wife Sophie took it upon herself to organise a week away for the two of us and selected a self catering apartment on the Greek island of Lefkas as our destination. Of course it is noble of her to insist that we do our bit to help the Greeks restore their economy. But it is also fair to say that, although I am the Scot, she is the parsimonious one between the two of us and at the very mention of self-catering and Greece my guard was up. As I told you I found time in my busy work schedule to investigate restaurant options on Lefkas. The best the island had to offer seemed to be a place called Penguin run by Gary and Mary. Anyway on closer inspection I really got cold feet. I’m no snob, but when Lefkas’s own website says it is a budget holiday makers paradise it is sending a pretty clear message. In an uncharacteristic show of assertiveness I decided to wade in and now we’re going on to Meganissiinstead, which may not be much better, but at least you have to take a 30 minute car ferry to get to it.
Talking of giving the Greek economy a helping hand, I have been going on about doing your bit for charity recently havn’tI. I don’t want to come over as Tony Hancock in The Blood Donor, but I got slightly carried away the other evening at a dinner and an Auction of Promises to raise money for a local worthy equestrian cause. I say I got carried away. What this really means is that Sophie wasn’t at the event and I was the better part of a bottle of wine the worse for wear. With Lottie, our last child remaining in the saddle, in mind, I bid “successfully” for one of the lots, the opportunity for a group of 6 to “walk” around the cross country course on the Thursday or Friday of the Burghley Horse Trials under the tutelage of a notable past member of the British Eventing team from whom we received the following email confirming she was up for it, as they say:
Dear Sophie,
I have never made so much money for any cause before! (DS adds…GROAN…..I got a good kicking for that choice sentence)
I have no plans at all yet..... and last year got in a real muddle as Doncaster Sales put my horse on the wrong day and then my godfather's funeral was on the Thursday. Hopefully it will be straightforward this year.
I am pretty sure I will have a new hip by then, fairly crippled at the moment and saw the consultant yesterday. I hoped he would operate next week, but he is making me wait a month... told him I needed to be back on a horse by the beginning of August for hunting. He grasped the situation quite well and realised that he wouldnt be able to operate between Sept and Mar! Had said it wouldnt last another year. Think I should have whinged sooner, cos I know all the symptoms from last year. Anyway that's my problem.
Please bring a gang if you would like to.
Regards,
Jane
I think we can safely say I’m a mug.
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