Who Has Been Seen Wearing Which Cane and Where?

Veteran British actor and film star, Edward Woodward, has been doing the rounds of the television talk shows sporting a very fine cane. He gladly displayed his drinking cane to the hosts of The One Show and explained how it unscrewed to reveal a glass phial for refreshment and a small tot glass. He assured the audience he was a keen collector of antique canes. Toulouse Lautrec famously carried a tippler's cane containing a lethal mixture of half cognac and half absinthe. I wonder what was in Mr Woodward's cane?

"The Chap" Magazine Spotlights Canes and Walking Sticks

I know that many of you are keen readers of The Chap magazine, which champions the rights of the English gentleman. The Chap takes a wry look at society and attempts to bring about a quiet revolution in society by the correct mixing of martinis, elegance in dress and the regular use of a trouser press!

Editor Gustav Temple took the time to lunch with me in Bath and the next edition will feature an item on the social history of the walking cane and how no modern gentleman should be seen without one.

Your Company Is Requested ...
Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair
(5-15 June 2008)

My next fair is Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair. This is it. The Big One. One of the world's most exciting antique fairs. Join the Glitterati and the Fashionable Intelligencia as they throng in the splendour of the Olympia Exhibition Hall and view items ranging from works by Picasso, the finest Georgian furniture and, of course, the best walking canes in Europe from Geoffrey Breeze. To request an invitation click here.

International Cane Conference in Paris
(9-11 October 2008)

Be there or be square, an international cane jamboree. Ambulists from all over Europe and America will be in Paris from 9 to 11 October to attend Canemania 2008. Come and join us for cane auctions, cane lectures, gala evening, cane swapping, meeting fellow cane collectors ... you get the picture.

Register at www.canemania2008.com. Do it now and we will have a great party in Paris in October.

I regret that I was not invited to be one of the guest speakers at CaneMania this year! I fear that after my ground breaking seminar on "The Walking Stick, Sex, Violence and Money" for the Olympia Fair Salon Evenings last November, I have been banished to the badlands of ambulism!