Nigeness

  The BBC seems to be showing a lot of 'classic' comedy to fill the August TV vacuum . Some of it very far from classic ( Some Mothe...

 1. Until I saw one of his pictures on Facebook today, I hadn't realised that Emile Zola (not one of my favourite authors) was an accomp...

 Last night I had a remarkably real-seeming dream about the late Queen, who I believe was a regular in many people's dream repertoire. D...

 Last weekend my Derbyshire cousin and I stepped into the Derby Museum and Art Gallery to admire the Joseph Wrights which are its chief glor...

 On Anecdotal Evidence today, Patrick Kurp mentions W.E. Henley's anthology Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verse for Boys . This was one of my...

 Another day, another birthday – and another man-and-dog photo. This is Claude Debussy, with his dogs Boy and Xanto. Debussy, often describe...

 This remarkable photograph shows the French painter Gustave Caillebotte (born on this day in 1844) in the Place du Caroussel in 1892 with h...