Nigeness

I was in Chelsea Old Church earlier today, looking at some monuments, when I came across this memorial tablet to Henry James (whose ashes ...

Last night I watched the second and concluding programme in that must-see history series Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family . This, in case...

I had never heard of Marie Kondo until I recently heard a news story to the effect that her popular decluttering programme was having such a...

We've all had mornings like this... Paws there. Snout there as well. Mustiness. Mould. Darkness; a desire to stretch, to scratch. Then h...

I was walking yesterday in southwest Oxfordshire, around Langford – a flat, rather uneventful country of large arable fields and straight ...

Since my encounter with Gordon Brown some years ago, politicians have rarely strayed into my dream world. Last night, however, for reasons ...

In Our Spoons Came from Woolworths  (see below), Barbara Comyns uses some curious words. One is 'frit', which she employs throughout...