Dyrham's dynamo
I am working on a guidebook for Dyrham Park at the moment. A glorious National Trust house, made more famous by being used as the main...
April is a cruel month
It offers beautiful crystal clear, sun-bathed days with blossom cascading from the trees and shrubs and green shoots thrusting from the...
The ideal house-guest
I went away to stay with friends near Windsor last weekend and this weekend (Easter) I have my sister-in-law staying with us. It has set...
The Wrong Righter
Just back from holiday and I am listening to an enchanting programme on the Radio 4 about a man who spends his free time (at night)...
Horrible Headings
Well, at last, the work has started flowing again. This week it was the guidebook for Biddulph, a National Trust Victorian garden near...
Waiting for 'Good Oh!'
Oh the trials of waiting for freelance work to come in! One, of course, wishes to give the world the impression that your working day is...
OMG - seriously SO cool
‘So, we have identified these new phenomena which will undoubtedly increase exponentially going forward.’ So says almost any young Turk,...
History and All That
Even the tiniest village shop nowadays offers a display of books and pamphlets dedicated to the local history of that particular...
Remembrance of things past
Personal memoirs have featured quite a lot among my immediate antecedents. My maternal grandfather wrote a short book about his early...
The Talking Author
I’m listening to quite a lot of Talking Books at the moment. More entertainment for my mother but they end up entertaining me in the car...