THE LAST DITCH
Winter began today in Moscow. I went out with just a sweater for warmth and was given many disbelieving stares by well-wrapped-up Muscovites. By the time I had walked a mile or so, I realised they were right. This is a picture of the nearest church to my home, silhouetted against a cold sky at 1730 today.
Tom, thought I’d lost you – had a computer crash and lost all addresses. Yes, your cupoli are like ours in this town and it is indeed chilly today but we’re usually 7 or 8 under Moscow in winter. Just checked – it’s actually warm – minus two just now.
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We are a balmy zero, but it felt colder yesterday in the wind. Certainly too cold for no overcoat. Today I am overcoated, but not yet scarved or gloved, so we can’t call it real Winter yet.
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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