Le musée Paul Valéry, Sète One of my greatest pleasures in travelling is visiting different towns and exploring their art galleries. It was no different on my recent trip to Sète in the south of France and I soon found…
Last week, I got back from seven days in the delightful Mediterranean town of Sète in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of Southern France where I rented an apartment over-looking the Marina in this small port town which is punctuated with canals…
I was supposed to have been at the launch of a new poetry anthology last Thursday but, unfortunately, I was struck down with the latest lurgey and had to take to my bed instead. I am sad to have missed…
Once a month, an excellent newsletter comes through the letterbox of all lucky Lewes residents – mine arrived today and, to be honest, I’d forgotten all about my role in this month’s issue. Because Lewes is a relatively civilised town,…
After a sunny and relatively mild weekend here in South East England, I can look out at my small Lewes garden and enjoy the results of some intense gardening – doing the work I should’ve done in February but completed,…
George Best and Mary Stävin. As a youngish man in the early days of my career in television, I had the intriguing and unlikely job of having a breakfast meeting with one of the most talked-about of all British…
One of the many advantages of living where I do, in Lewes, UK, is that I have open country less than a five minutes walk from my front door. The sunny February weather has been just too beautiful to…
There was encouraging news today about the Ukraine ceasefire – Like all of us, I’m hoping it will hold and lead to a lasting solution to the appalling escalation of violence that had been growing in East Ukraine all…
When I was a teenager I thought I had all the answers about classical music. It was all quite simple then. Palestrina, Victoria, Byrd, Purcell, Monteverdi, J.S.Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Rossini, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Bellini, Chopin, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms, Debussy,…
I know the excitement has been building since I announced last December that my mother was about to finish the winter tea cosy just before her 100th birthday but, many apologies, I seem to have omitted sharing a photograph of…