25 Good Things
Great music, played with passion and flair. Really good cheese. A sunny place with flowers and trees and birds and …
They’re back
I went for a long walk this morning. Up the hill and down the hill and through the park and …
‘Expert’ witness
Expertise is relative. I am, as I write, watching a fencing tournament. I know nothing about fencing. Not strictly true. …
Spring. Spring?
We’ve been saying it for weeks. Spring is on the way. Hazel catkins hanging brightly from whippy branches, snowdrops pushing …
Me and my song thrush
[wpvideo UOzPFosb] It’s so tempting to think they do it for us. They don’t, of course, any more than the …
I blame the alien
Last week passed on wings of delirium. It started so well. Monday was a day of music and words and …
Tale of grim
I was feeling grim. In fact, if you’ve got a moment (and with due gratitude and apologies to Richard Curtis, …
Local pleasures
It’s a tiny area, really. Just over half an acre. It takes me three minutes to walk round it. But …
Rare robin, well done
It’s been a goldfinch winter round our way. Not momentous news, I realise, but bear with me, for they are …
The Power of Memory
It came out of the blue. A normal journey, radio on. Pick of the Week. Victor Hugo’s adulterous shenanigans, Queen …