I have invented a new word:
Peecrastinate Verb: to irrationally put off getting out of bed for a pee when you wake up in the middle of the night
21:08
15:55
Hedgerows and hedgetrimmers
Where I live in Somerset it is dairy country – small fields and hedgerows interspersed with woods many of which are recently planted. Lookin...
15:49
Overpriced houses
We live in rural Somerset. Bristol is an hour’s drive away, as is Bournmouth; Yeovil, hardly an economic powerhouse, is the closest town of ...
12:36
Wren's Great Model of St Paul's
Ever since studying the English Baroque at university I have wanted to see Wren’s Great Model of St Paul’s. It is not the model of the cathe...
09:54
Are judges out of touch?
I went to a charity dinner recently in the Great Hall of Lincoln's Inn - a magnificent Victorian paeon to the medieval gothic. The Inns ...
09:52
Exhibition Road - a triumph
For the last two years Exhibition Road, which runs from South Kensington up to Kensington Gore and Hyde Park, has been a chicane of workmen...
10:31
Thank you
Only in England. I overheard my own conversation with the ticket collector on a train this morning – an entire dialogue, making complete sen...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)