tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post1848978346987039603..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Niko Ghika, John Craxton, and Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor and the allure of Greece - British Museum exhibition Jim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-78629891316202337792018-03-27T14:04:44.316+11:002018-03-27T14:04:44.316+11:00Laughs. I haven't read Artemis Cooper's bi...Laughs. I haven't read Artemis Cooper's bio, just a review, but she has seems to have found him a good thing if with those characteristics - except perhaps shit!Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-29187725987851102902018-03-27T10:39:41.449+11:002018-03-27T10:39:41.449+11:00My late stepmother had a taste for [nineteen]thirt...My late stepmother had a taste for [nineteen]thirties toffs which just extended to PLF though he was a bit on the young side (eg, she had all the James Lees Milne diaries and an extensive Mitford sisters collection). After I gave her Artemia wotsername's biography of PLF she went right off him as a perrenial hobnobber and snob, showoff, sponger and general shit.<br /><br />Well that's my paraphrase, as she's no longer around to give it in her own words. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com