Nigeness

Here's a surprising story from far Cathay - they're lapping up a Chinese translation of Finnegans Wake (can it really be translated...

This story about the dire consequences of the British 'stiff upper lip' - or rather a British combination of embarrassment, fatali...

The film star Victor Mature (his real name, improbably enough) was born on this day 100 years ago. Like many of his war-straddling generat...

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon is the title of a painting by Jan Davidsz de Heem (above)  that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum in Ne...

I spotted a couple of these little beauties sporting their lustrous metallic sheen on a lavender plant today. Very striking they are - and,...

Sad news today about that fine bird, the Mistle Thrush - though I must say that, like many such reports from the RSPB, it rather contradi...

The old-fashioned soda siphon was a thing of beauty. Elegantly shaped, made of impressively thick and heavy glass - engraved with fancy p...