More was only in the army for six years from 1940 to 1946, so why everyone still called him "Captain" over sixty years after he was demobilised is another mystery.
He mostly sold concrete pipes and roofing materials as a career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Tom_Moore
This
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tdz/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-series-1-1-return-to-the-circus?seriesId=m000wn05
Followed by this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074tpb/smileys-people-episode-1?seriesId=unsliced
If anything WFH has increased my productivity because I don't waste any time with all the innane office gossip, meetings that produce nothing, or tedious politicking.
Also it means I don't spend 3 hours a day in traffic, spending on petrol, bridge tolls or parking.
It's a bit quiet round here...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/nov/13/timothy-west-a-modest-acting-master-who-embodied-the-best-of-british
Timothy West, who has died aged 90, wrote an autobiography in 2001 in which he quoted a remark of Richard Strauss: “I may not be a first-rank composer but I think I may be a...