In 2020 I went to Pompeii and then to Troy

Troy myth and reality. At the beginning of 2020, I spent a week in Naples and visited the fateful ruins at Pompeii where you have to think about the disaster that befell the folks there in in the year 79…
Troy myth and reality. At the beginning of 2020, I spent a week in Naples and visited the fateful ruins at Pompeii where you have to think about the disaster that befell the folks there in in the year 79…
I know, it’s been too long, but I’m back. I noticed in amazement and a touch of horror, that I last posted a blog on this site last December. Forgive me. I’ve been busy with various writing projects – a…
Thomas Arne (1710-1778) I was thinking about the English composer Thomas Arne this morning, you know, the man that our British Prime Minister hadn’t heard of when asked on an American chat show if he knew who wrote the patriotic…
The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania (1846) by Sir Joseph Paton Hoping that you enjoy looking at this painting by Sir Joseph Paton, I’m rushing for a London train. The picture is a glorified theatrical crowd scene, somewhat over-crowded perhaps,…
I was going to write something irritating about Romeo and Juliet, you remember those annoying teenagers who just couldn’t keep things together, but I couldn’t bring myself to say anything cynical about them on the day that I’m writing a…