The Hearth of Mopsus

It must have been forty years since I went to Arundel Castle. The town, a port once but whose economy is now based around antique shops, caf...

It was the morning of the Village Show and, despite the extraordinarily unfavourable growing conditions in recent months, some dogged local ...

 ... only with fewer actual dogs. In Swanvale Halt this sharp summer, the canines keep inside for most of the day the same way the humans do...

Time to use the Giles Fraser graphic again, though I think he has a beard now. I do my best to avoid ‘Thought for the Day’ but I caught it o...

Everyone knows how William Beckford built with slave-plantation cash the mighty, impossible Fonthill Abbey , whose central tower collapsed, ...

Swanvale Halt is quiet at the moment. Some of this is down to the schools being out, and some to the heat (it was absolutely deathly at the ...

The Principal of St Stephen’s House while I was there, Fr Sheehy, remains an Anglican parish priest in Lancashire, but his successor Robin W...