If you like growing tulips then November is a bit like Christmas. it is the time when exciting brown boxes arrive with the post with that excellent label: Perishable Plant Material. I still get a thrill out of opening parcels…
Those men with strimmers that I spotted a couple of days ago did return to manage the vegetation on Brack Mound, the principal view from my study window here in Lewes in the UK. It had not been cut since…
It was a wet but exciting night in London on Wednesday. I was on my way to see the English band Foxes! performing at the cavernously big Shepherd’s Bush Empire theatre in London – their biggest gig so far and,…
The Irish piggy bank is empty I have never been any good at money. I am not proud of this but at least I am being honest here. I find numbers difficult as I have written here before and often…
So Prince William Windsor, the second in line to the British throne is going to marry his long-term girlfriend, Kate Middleton, the fun-loving daughter of self-made toy merchandising millionaires. They certainly seem like a happy couple and they are undoubtedly…
There were signs of life up on Brack Mound yesterday morning when a man in a hard hat appeared on the summit with a strimmer. Regular readers will know that this ancient man-made fortification and probable burial mound is the…
There has been much emotion and pain at this year’s Armistice events – certainly here in Britain and, I suspect elsewhere too. We have British soldiers dying in Afghanistan and very recently they were dying in Iraq too. I don’t…
Shirley Verrett In his new book, Listen To This (published 25th November by Fourth Estate), Alex Ross, a passionate and persuasive writer about music, laments the description “classical music” and most of the terms used to replace it – art…
Now I don’t want to say too much but those of you who have been following the story about the shop across the road from my house here in Lewes, UK have been asking me if I know what kind…
Twenty of the ‘Grimsby Chums” buried arm-in-arm on the First World War battlefield of Arras in 1917. “They shall grow not old………”