Leading Light

When we married, my uncle Guy gave us a Jacob Sheep fleece, from his own flock, as a wedding gift.  It many ways it was indicative of the ...

Even their names are evocative: Sops-In-Wine, Poor Man’s Profit, Greasy Pippin, Golden Knob – you can almost envisage the apples as I run ...

A specially commissioned bronze sculpture of Genghis Kahn, by artist Dashi Namdako, has been unveiled in central London.  It has been create...

Last night at bedtime, in honour of the season, my youngest son and I read Saki’s short story, “The Easter Egg”.  The English writer, Hector...

I love this time of year – “burgeoning bud-burst” as my mother calls it.  Bud Burst is the correct terminology, as used in a viniculture, of...