Nigeness

Tomorrow I am off to Nice with Mrs N for a few days. You may picture me, if you will, sauntering along the Promenade des Anglais (another gi...

The summer that came back to life as August became September and lasted, warm and dry, right through that month and into October, finally be...

Who is the dandiacal figure above? It's Somerset Maugham, as painted by Gerald Kelly in a portrait called The Jester. The picture is one...

Being on holiday this week, I am taking even less interest than usual in the passing scene, but I was struck by the above word, which I caug...

Talking of little-visited attractions, a great many of our smaller parish churches also stand unvisited, overlooked and underappreciated. An...

Today an organisation called VisitEngland (was it once the English Tourist Board?) unveiled England's least visited attraction. That...

Here's an unmissable opportunity to test your reading speed and find out how long it would take you to read Game of Thrones (I know you...