From Gamekeepers to Gentlemen: The Bowler
Where has it gone? Once the height of sartorial elegance, and beloved by city bankers,…
Browsing: Musings
For Whom the Bells Toll
Moving to a house in Somerset, some years ago, which overlooked the parish church and…
Sense and Sensibilities at Stonehenge
I’m standing on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, at Stonehenge – Europe’s most famous prehistoric site…
Thanksgiving: An American Affair
To those across the pond the fourth Thursday in November heralds Thanksgiving and the start…
Taking to the Thames
Londoners take it for granted, visitors often miss the opportunity its views afford; but it’s…
Genealogical Journeys
So Derek Jacobi’s a Huguenot descendant? And Paul Hollywood comes from war hero stock? As…
The English Dandy: Who, Sir? Me, Sir?
Margaret May muses on the erstwhile English Dandy – his emergence, his rise to pre-eminence…
Waterloo
The Southbank is an interesting place. It is the intersection of so many different parts.…
The Pursuit of Idleness
What a delectable notion is the concept of idleness. The very word conjures up a…
A Tubular Experience
For those of us that live there the London Underground is one of life’s mundane…
Al Alvarez: A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Of all the characters I have encountered at the pond over the years, he has…
The Priest
The old priest was dying. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer six months or…