Master's Blog
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June 2020
I can hardly claim that I have been so busy that I missed the early July deadline for this blog…
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May 2020
The start of May and the seventh week of lockdown. Are we all getting the seven “year” itch or needing…
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April 2020
“April is the cruellest month” – so starts The Waste Land by T S Eliot, written in 1922 after the…
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March 2020
This month’s blog marks the three quarters point of my year as Master which might not have been worth mentioning…
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FEBRUARY 2020
During the last month I have been in awe of the tremendous craft skills abounding in the Livery Companies and…
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JANUARY 2020
The New Year has seen the public announcement of the appointment of our new Clerk who will take over in…
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DECEMBER 2019
Meeting so many Livery Companies means that we come into contact with lots of experts and professionals with unique knowledge…
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NOVEMBER 2019
The perceived wisdom is that things get busier towards the end of the year and so it proved in November….
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OCTOBER 2019
The end of September was busy with the installation of the new Sheriffs, Alderman Michael Mainelli and Chris Hayward. The…
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September 2019
Every Master discovers that one delight of the year is to meet fellow Masters of the other 109 Livery Companies. …
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August 2019
Whilst August is usually a quiet month for Livery Companies it transpired that the start of August saw me setting…
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Master’s Blog July 2019
Coming into office on the 16th July means that the number of events is small coupled with the slowdown of…
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