How nice to see the British Prime Minister, David Cameron flying the British flag in India. Nice is the word of course when talking about Mr Cameron. I suspect you would have to be very cynical indeed not to agree…
I have been experimenting in my small town centre garden here in Lewes, England. All year I have been using a really very small space to see just how much fruit and veg I can grow. After having a large…
Well how cool is this then! The Pope has got another new look and, in my humble non-Catholic opinion, it is the best one yet. The Vatican tell us that he has adopted the dude look, though he never wears…
There was some harvesting to do this weekend, a small crop of peas fattened up in their pods even though I was only growing a few plants in an experimental spirit and they got willfully entangled in with my new…
He might be jumping for joy but so should we all….the amazing Muttiah Muralitharan, the Sri Lankan cricket hero last week achieved what is probably an impossible record to break with his 800th. wicket in international test match cricket. It…
I was invited to the launch of a new Stanley Spencer exhibition, called Resonance and Renewal, the other day at the Chatham Dockyards in Kent where Spencer’s set of eight giant paintings of the Glasgow shipbuilders, recently restored, can be…
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the humble teapot. Not any old teapot of course but this classic of Twentieth Century design, the above illustrated tea-for-one, hinged-lid metal teapot. This revolutionary reworking of an English tradition was meant…
I went to Rochester in Kent yesterday on a visit loosely connected in my mind with the world of Charles Dickens, the English writer second only to Shakespeare in fame. He was a child in these parts and, when…
I have had a plan to add moving images to this site for some time but I still haven’t got round to buying a decent camera and now that I have just booked my second holiday of the year, to…
I spent some time in the Sussex country village of Lindfield this weekend a short car’s journey away from my home town of Lewes, the country town for East Sussex. This beautiful village with its Lime Tree lined High Street,…