Where there’s muck . . .
THERE is nothing, but nothing, like the aroma of muck spreading. Even I can detect it after three sinus operations about 25 years ago just about knocked out my sense … Continue readingWhere there’s muck . . .
A compendium of musical delights by Alan and Margaret Ashworth
THERE is nothing, but nothing, like the aroma of muck spreading. Even I can detect it after three sinus operations about 25 years ago just about knocked out my sense … Continue readingWhere there’s muck . . .
This continues an appreciation of Answered Prayers, a new book by Duncan Hamilton about England’s only World Cup football triumph, in 1966. You can read Part 1 here. ON January 2, 1963, … Continue reading1966 and all that Part 2
WHEN we lived in the south London suburbs, at this time of year there were fungi all over the place – puffballs, fly agaric (the pretty but toxic red toadstools … Continue readingDestroying angels and funeral bells
I HAD got to only the fourth paragraph of Chapter One in the new book Answered Prayers when I threw it down in disgust at the phrase ‘the peel of Bow Bells’. … Continue reading1966 and all that
WE had a biblical deluge overnight on Thursday, and by Friday morning the Ribble was at least eight feet higher than the day before, well over its banks in several … Continue readingRise of the mighty Ribble
IF there is one place on earth where I would like to live other than my current home, it would be Trumpton, in the county of Trumptonshire. For an all-too-brief … Continue readingOh, to be in Trumpton
FOR no particular reason, this week I thought we would celebrate clouds. We all know the usual formations but I have found a few stills and videos of less common … Continue readingOutlook cloudy
I HAVE written previously about my belief that if you are prepared to eat animals, you should go the whole hog. During a visit to Budapest, my better half reminded … Continue readingHaving a ball in Budapest
ON the train to London last week (please don’t go there unless you really have no alternative) I passed this scene in Hertfordshire: Here is the house in close-up (I … Continue readingLost world of the Ovaltineys
BENEATH the streets of a south-east London suburb can be found an extraordinary and mysterious network of tunnels, hewn from chalk and in total more than 20 miles long. Welcome, … Continue readingDown in the caves with Hendrix, Bowie and Doctor Who