This is the last column of the year and it comes with traditions.
There s a cocktail recipe coming up, and I d like to offer a big swoop of the Bogie Fedora to the finalists of this year s Golden Turtle Awards, named in honour of the giant turtle upon whose back planet earth is supported.
Stephen Hawking told that story. It involves a well-known scientist – some say Bertrand Russell - being confronted by an old lady who insisted the world is really a flat plate sitting on the back of a giant turtle. “What is the turtle standing on?” the scientist cunningly enquired. “You re very clever young man, very clever,” said the old lady, “but it s turtles all the way down!”