by Minter Dial | Feb 8, 2007 | Entertainment
Reunions crossing the Atlantic I have just come back from celebrating my 25th school reunion at Eton… and what a grand experience it was. The usual trepidations, unfamiliar faces mixed with completely recognizable ones (who don’t seem to have aged one...
by Minter Dial | Feb 1, 2007 | Health
For a country that has seen women smokers double since the 60s to 22% of all adults, France has finally come around to banning smoking in the workplace. Funnily enough, yesterday, when going into a few offices, I saw colleagues taking their last ceremonious smoke...
by Minter Dial | Jan 30, 2007 | Travel
This was a perfectly trendy restaurant in Notting Hill, London, and, with a happy air, we all ordered our choices off the menu. Only upon further review did I notice a few oddities. Was it a French restaurant in London run by the Chinese? An English owner who had...
by Minter Dial | Jan 17, 2007 | Uncategorized
Probably not many of us still around who love Ayn Rand, but I believe that her philosophies (determinism, objectivism…) remain appropriate and valid; even if the writing style has aged. The Fountainhead is a delightful novel and Howard Roark’s discipline...
by Minter Dial | Jan 17, 2007 | Education, Health
Living in France, you would have thought we live in Cheese Heaven. And we do love our cheeses here. However, our favorite cheese is from England (and it’s not Cheddar or Stilton which is a great blue — buy it at the Fromagerie in London where the...
How do I delete all my photos from Google Photos (in bulk) without deleting my Google account?
