Nigeness

I know birds like to take a peck at building mortar from time to time - they need a bit of grit in their diet, and a little help in forming ...

David Cameron's use of the word 'swarm' in relation to the large numbers of people crossing Europe in the hope of reaching the g...

Pictorial postscript to Locked Church Country. This jolly village baroque headstone is in the isolated churchyard of Tonge.

Vincent Van Gogh died on this day 125 years ago, having survived an attempt to shoot himself, only to fall victim to an infection of the wou...

I was back in Kent yesterday, church crawling again - which isn't easy in a part of the county where the churches are all locked. Too qu...

Hoping for a good laugh, I tuned in last night to BBC2's new Bloomsbury Group drama, Life In Squares. Disappointingly, there weren't...

I missed last week's sad news of the death of Wayne Carson, who wrote that great pop song Always On My Mind. The intense emotional drama...