Nigeness

I am going to be away for a few days, in Derbyshire and Kent, so might not be able to blog before the weekend (though you never know...). ...

'Milton has perhaps a more elevated gloomy sublimity that belongs to hell and chaos - but no man equals Homer and Shakespeare in that in...

The tall and very beautiful bellflowers that we call Canterbury Bells seem to be having a very good year, the excessive rain causing them t...

Well, it seems the recent talk of Clive James's impending demise  was premature - at least according to Clive . Let's hope he is in...

'About midway in my ministry, which extends roughly from the peace of Versailles to the peace of Munich, measured in terms of Western hi...

Noting that today is the anniversary of the birth of the Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, I was just about to launch into a blog post on t...

A house a few doors down my road has been standing empty for a while, between owners. As a result, the front lawn - to all appearances an u...