What was the highlight?
I've been asked that many times since we returned from Europe a few weeks back. What I treasure are not places or events, but moments. Insignificant moments. A snowball fight in Lauterbrunnen. A gelato in Rome. Watching a squirrel near Buckingham Palace, and Mongolian street musicians by the Pompidou Center. The play of light on a misty Scottish peak. Moments of perfection where all was complete, nothing was missing - where I was like Mrs Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse: "… waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!"
In 1986, Jude and I spent three months in Europe. It was then that I decided to give up lawyering. This latest trip hasn't led to any momentous decisions; but inevitably it has prompted a little reappraisal. That is why this will be the last issue of BEYOND THE GRAVY. After nearly three years, it's time for me to close this chapter of my life and start a new one.