FRIDAY TO MONDAY, MAY 22ND-25TH

Alice and I head to Morocco where an old friend is getting married - rather unfashionably to somebody of the opposite sex. This is a long overdue break for us both but within 10 minutes of our first social engagement, on a rooftop in Marrakesh, I meet somebody who is interested in the London Sale and a charming lady who tells me how she fought off the advances of a well-known bloodstock agent.