Glad you are enjoying the blog, and thank you for the kind words. I am very glad to hear the film made you want to read the book. :-) Thanks for following!

I don’t smoke and i don’t like it but there is something elegant and attractive in a man smoking.
Frank wore only an ermine hood, a B.A.’s gown, and loose, unremarkable clothes, subfusc today, with the Corinthian tie which alternated with the Carthusian, week in, week out.
A Carthusian tie refers to Charterhouse, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in Charterhouse, or more simply Charterhouse, is an English collegiate independent boarding school (also referred to as a public school) situated at Godalming in Surrey. (Wiki)
We are not sure about the Corinthian tie, but the best guess would be this:
The Corinthian junior football club, now merged with Casuals football club into Corinthian-Casuals.

A caricature of Harold Acton by Evelyn Waugh.
In Paula Byrne’s “Mad World” one can see this picture reprinted with a handwritten note (by EW): ‘At the sign of the Capricorn, Mr Harold Acton, the last of the poets”.
“He was sacked my first half. “”
- Byrne mentions that Brian Howard was “nearly expelled for taking a toy engine into chapel”.
Lately, or perhaps ever since the arrival of Robert Parker, there has been a stream of debate on tasting notes and how wine can or should be described. Earlier in the year, there was a wonderful article by Andrew Jefford. And more recently, a blog from Richard Bray, and the…

William Lygon, 8th Earl Beauchamp and his wife Else Schiwe
On his death, his titles became extinct.