Calling Mrs Mestel

Mrs Mestel. Take a look at this photo please:

Jonathan Mestel GM, GM, GM, QGAM

Does your husband behave like this at home? In bed at 11 o’clock – AM, folks – watching bridge on the internet while eating dried apricots? (My fearless photographer had to be quick to get this shot…he was dummy at the time.)

In case you are wondering what the letters after Jonathan’s name are:

GM: chess grand master
GM: chess problem solving grand master
GM: bridge grand master
QGAM: quite good at maths

Eventually he did run out of food in his bedroom, at which point the intrepid traveller could be spotted at Yum Cha in Chinatown:

Surrounded by the local talent.

From left to right, Darryl Johansen chess GM, Mestel, Guy West, chess IM. You can see a TV interview Darryl did with George Negus a while back here.