Nigeness

'Spring is incomplete for me – no, it does not even begin – until the swifts are back. I spend the last days of April and first few of M...

I'm indebted to Beleaguered Bryan for passing on this titbit: Sparrowhawk Blitz Caused Sparrow Plunge Newly published research provides...

Watching Gordon Broon, scary rictus in place, out and about gladhanding 'ordinary British people' was always like watching one of th...

It has been a quite astonishing spring for blossom - I can't remember one like it (perhaps the last was after one of the cold winters o...

Talking of literary prizes, I heard this poetess interviewed on the World Service in the small hours. She has, I'm afraid, a rather har...

I pass this titbit on for its comedy value - Ian McEwan has been nominated for the P.G. Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. I heard the clod...

And I even missed the death of Peter Porter, surely one of 'our' best poets. Even at the last, in his 80s, it seems he was writing m...