Tag Archives: Windsor
The new technology center that’s West of London
The FT reports that Microsoft are looking to set its new head office out of London to West or East. I will be travelling in to London on the Queen Elizabeth Line from Slough. I will pass through through suburbs … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged Eton, Microsoft, Pensions, Queen Elizabeth, Slough, Technology, Windsor
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Burns and Timpson are great men for today!
Thanks to my digital contact Johnny Timpson for this poem he posted a couple of weeks ago on Burns Night. I had never properly read it before but in the context of my friendship with Johnny and the photos he … Continue reading
When a horse makes everyone happy- Protektorat at Windsor one Sunday in January!
This article is from Racing Post and is for me and my party who watched on from the final fence and after Protektorat’s victory from the winners parade. I’m so happy to have been at a racecourse at a time … Continue reading
A morning on fire
Red sky in the morning Shepherd’s warning
A positive week for Britain and for pensions
I am now back from Scotland, I had a positive time up there in the company of people who were running their DB pension schemes on. These included the universities at Belfast and Cardiff who have schemes for their non-teaching … Continue reading
Swan Festivals can still be free – with ukulele
Last night I was with Windsor Ukulele in the cowshed of the Swan Pub. They were rehearsing, we were having another free jamboree. I’ve been given a bit of ribbing by the er “younger” generation for slagging off the rip-off … Continue reading
Wealth – slave of the wise – master of the fool
I would like to keep up with the various posts of Arun Muralidhar but they are as cantankerous as the blogs of Montaigne and impenetrable as the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. I can amuse myself and hopefully you , … Continue reading
Eton posh boys don’t do floods
I am not wealthy but I went to a posh school. I know what privilege and entitlement looks like I don’t live in Eton but my best-mate does and I’m house-sitting for her. We live – like many people live … Continue reading
The Queen is Dead -words fail.
Goodnight sweet queen and flights of angels see thee to thy rest. pic.twitter.com/fOI4cLNEhF — Henry Tapper (@henryhtapper) September 8, 2022 It has been ten hours since the BBC interrupted programs to announce the death of Elizabeth II. I am sitting … Continue reading
All the Queen’s Men (overtime at Romney Weir)
What do you do when you come back from Church on a wet April Sunday morning? If you live opposite Romney Weir in Eton, you can enjoy watching eight engineers monitoring how the largest archmides screw in Europe is coping with the extra flows … Continue reading
Posted in Change, happiness, Henry Tapper blog
Tagged Archimedes Screw, Church, Council Tax, Engineer, Eton, Eton College, Queen, River Thames, Romney, Romney Lock, Wikipedia, Windsor
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