It’s been a strange and sad week here at Gript Towers, there’s no point pretending otherwise. I want to begin this week’s roundup with a note of thanks to the many hundreds of readers who reached out this week to offer their sympathy to us – and to his family – on the passing of Michael Dwyer.
It’s a funny feeling, when someone dies, and you wish you’d spent more time talking with them. Michael and I had many hours of conversations, which mainly involved him talking and me listening. He was one of those people with the gift of being able to talk almost endlessly without ever being boring or dull. As Sarah noted to me the other day, he was as comfortable regaling you with tales of goat husbandry or the history of stamp collection as he was debating philosophy. He was, I learned this week, fluent or close to it in six European languages, and spoke Italian so well that the Italians themselves often refused to believe he was a foreigner.
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