Nigeness

 Yesterday, for the first time in months, I found a church standing open to all, with only minimal precautions, and no one on hand to harry ...

 Radio listeners with long memories might recall, with a frisson of horror, the Radio 4 programme of the above name, in which two cheery coc...

 Here's a mystery. Suddenly all the aubergines have disappeared from the supermarket shelves, leaving not even an aubergine-allocated sp...

 Having remarked yesterday that butterflies are 'few and far between', I must add that this was certainly not true of the Brimstones...

 This is the day generally regarded as William Shakespeare's birthday, and celebrated as such – but not on Google (no Shakespearean dood...

Above is Van Gogh's famous, and still startling, portrait of Dr Gachet, the homoeopath and amateur painter who was Vincent's friend ...

 Going through some papers just now, I came across a photocopy of something my paternal grandfather (whom I never knew; he died in 1936) wro...