Grandiloquent ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 247 Sunday, 22 March 2015 Welcome to this week’s “grand” issue. Grand dish I first stayed at the Grand Hotel in Nuwara Eliya 33 years ago and later, in 1991, I spent many days there rambling around corridors and rooms to research and write “The Centenary Souvenir.” The best that could be said about the hotel ...

Big Time ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 256 Sunday 24 May 2015. Greetings to readers; hope to meet some of you in London on Friday 29 May. Big Time At the dawn of the Swinging Sixties, every hot-blooded boy wanted to make the big time by becoming a pop star. Since I couldn’t sing or play an instrument, I took to poetry ...

Beethoven & Mozart. ROYSTON REPORTS, Number 257 Sunday 31 May 2015. Welcome to this week’s newsletter from Sri Lanka (although I’m currently in London for a few days). Quail cottage Since a friend gave me a few quails last year, I have become fascinated by them as pets. They require very little care (just food and water) and in return ...