Nigeness

 The Easter Day Solemn Evensong in the cathedral was a beautiful and richly satisfying service, with the choir on top form – Stanford's ...

The day has come, and it's time to wish a happy Easter to all who browse here. The painting is Edward Burne-Jones's The Morning of t...

 It's Good Friday, and I feel I haven't put up any music for a while, so... Here is the sublimely beautiful final chorus of Bach...

 On a cold, grey, relentlessly rainy March day – one of far too many such days this month - it's good to be reminded of how glorious Mar...

Remember Robert Morley? Once seen, he was hard to forget, with his startled-owl eyes, bushy eyebrows, thick lips, quivering jowls and triple...

 So I walked. I walked, in fact, from Dover to Canterbury, in three stages, following various pilgrim routes and long-distance paths, and it...

The first day of spring, and I have succumbed to what we medical men call a stinking cold (Coryza odorata). This is especially annoying as t...