Nigeness

'Clear vision goes with the quick foot,' says Robert Louis Stevenson, condensing his previous sentence: 'A country rapidly passe...

It's been open for ten years, but today was the first time I visited the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London. It's small but...

It's second-hand of course, not new (boringly predictable) or antiquarian (forbiddingly expensive). The premises small-to-middling, with...

Peter de Vries died on this day in 1993, with a long and prolific writing (and editing) career behind him. Is he still read, I wonder? I don...

Further to yesterday's post, I hear that more and more schools are teaching the ukulele as a starter instrument - with, it seems, dramat...

... and as my daughter is out in Wellington, here's this . An awfully ragged performance yes, especially the lead vocal, but rather swee...

Over on Anecdotal Evidence , Patrick Kurp pays me the compliment of referring to a string of my recent posts - a compliment I could return a...