Proud of my Commonwealth connections

I was always told that pride was a bad thing. Pride, so say the people who like to say such things, comes before a fall. C.S. Lewis, a scholar and dreamer of faraway, imaginary worlds. wrote, “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.”

An Aga Goddess? Moi?

It may surprise you to know that I was recently featured in, of all things, the Financial Times. What might James be doing in the pink pages, you might ask? Have I been charged with embezzlement? Is Whisk being bought over by the Santander Group? Have I discovered a means of turning water into petrol that only costs three pence a litre?