Nigeness

It's the 88p bathplug that really does it, isn't it? Well, that and claiming for both the fireplace and the coal to burn in it. Min...

I don't suppose this is an original insight (if insight it be), but I wonder if - accepting, for the sake of argument, the Darwinian par...

Van Gogh, eh? What is one to make of Vincent Van Gogh (born on this day in 1853)? Famously obscure and uncommercial in his day, famously mad...

A feature of my Kentish walk (see below) that is already, I suspect, being discreetly edited out of my memory is that it involved twice cros...

I was out walking yesterday - essentially the same walk as reported here , but in less sunny, more blowy weather, and in different, more num...

This is Edward Bawden's poster for Hyde Park, done in 1925. The original artwork (in watercolour) is in an excellent little exhibtion of...

Earlier today, the following announcement came over the tannoy at my local supermarket: 'Will all colleagues go to the colleague restaur...