Dearest Gentle Reader, this Monday brings a most remarkable assortment of affairs - legislation slipped quietly past sleeping parliamentarians, school kitchens stripped of their guilty pleasures, and a gentleman from the Northern Province who has just done something in the golfing world that only three men before him have ever managed. This Author has opinions on all of it, and very little patience for those who do not.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Sunday brings diplomatic collapse, five hundred arrests before the church bells have ceased ringing, and one very remarkable horse reminding us all what greatness looks like. This Author has barely had time to finish her third cup of tea before the world demanded comment, and she shall not disappoint.

Dearest Gentle Reader, this Saturday brings a diplomatic retreat of breathtaking awkwardness, a Duke embroiled in litigation with the very charity he created, and weather so offended by its own recent warmth that it has sent hail by way of apology. This Author has observations on all of it - and a raised eyebrow to spare.