Nigeness

 Born exactly 100 years ago today was the naturalist, writer and (an endangered species, this) zookeeper, Gerald Durrell – a child of the Ra...

 This wretched flu continues to toy with me mercilessly, one day giving every indication that it's coming to an end, the next surging ba...

 I have been laid low by a pretty vicious dose of flu, which struck, with exquisite timing, on New Year's Eve and shows no intention of ...

 Here is a new year/old year poem by the great Richard Wilbur. The weather here is nothing like so wintry, just windy and damp, but we'r...

 One of my Christmas presents was this –  About Britain No. 8: East Midlands and the Peak , one of a series of little books produced for the...

 Browsing in Thom Gunn's Poems 1950-1966 in bed last night, I happened on one I hadn't noticed before – 'Epitaph for Anton Schm...

 Today is the anniversary of the birth of Sydney Greenstreet, a remarkable actor with an unusual career path. I wrote about him on this day ...