Nigeness

 I've only just realised, with a start, that today is National Beer Day.  The date was chosen because it's the anniversary of the si...

 Born on this day in 1811 was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the abolitionist bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin . She was born, I was inter...

Yesterday's announcement of David Hockney's death was greeted by a wonderful outpouring of affectionate and admiring tributes – and ...

 Happy Aethelflaed Day, everyone!  Aethelflaed (870-918), daughter of Alfred the Great, is remembered as the Lady of the Mercians, and is so...

 Yesterday I had an appointment at a hospital some little way from Lichfield. For reasons I won't bore you with, I ended up arriving a f...

 Another day begins. Here is a starting-the-day poem by the great Richard Wilbur. It's just the kind of celebration of the domestic and ...

 I see that the supermarket chain Sainsbury's is doing its bit to cut 'emissions' by removing brown eggs from its shelves in fav...