Nigeness

 Yesterday I was in the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent, marvelling at the Staffordshire Hoard – or rather at the half of...

 Today is All Souls, when Christians are enjoined to remember 'the faithful dead'. For most of us, I suspect, the ever growing famil...

 Johannes Vermeer's date of birth is, like so much else about him, unknown, but it was on this day in 1632, at the Reformed Church in De...

Yesterday afternoon I decided to join a 'Fungus Foray' in St Michael's churchyard. I think my interest was piqued by recently fi...

 Talking of Radio 3, one of its pleasing regular features is the Sunday poem, requested by a listener and read, in commendably straightforwa...

 I was not surprised to read that yet more listeners are deserting Radio 4, especially its unlistenable Today Programme . Why anyone should ...

 One of the books most frequently dumped on charity shops in recent years was Dan Brown's T he Da Vinci Code (though it was surely outd...