By Paul Sankey
Published on June 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Happy Father’s Day! Having lunch with the three kids this afternoon at 5pm. Specific “Mother’s” and “Father’s Day” as such are American inventions, in West Virginia 1907 for Mother’s Day, and 1909 for Father’s Day as a complement, to be fair to Fathers. Should really be Mom’s Day and Dad’s Day. Mother’s Day in the UK has its origins in the 16th-century custom of ‘Mothering Sunday’, which fell on the fourth Sunday of Lent. So …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on March 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Greetings, Beautiful day here in London, darkening now at 5pm, although temperatures are still wintry-chill, the sun was blazing, and in London, the daffodils are out, following the snowdrops that emerge as early as late January. From here in London, we have another six months of spring, and then go into Autumn. The questionable London summer is a brief transition. By contrast in New York we go from Arctic weather to summer heat with nary …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on November 3, 2024 at 8:45 AM
مرحبًا Greetings. I swam to the Antarctic yesterday. I will explain how I managed that – ha ha ha – later in this note, when we talk about Dubai, which like gold, has become a consensus store of wealth. A measure of Dubai: “There are penguins at the Antarctic” said my host, as he eased his speedboat towards a fake island, as I furiously covered myself in sunscreen, through the 5 kph (knots per hour …
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