The Dennis Severs' House at 18 Folgate street in Spitalfields has restricted opening hours but boy is it worth finding some that suit you. Experiencing what it was really like to do it all by candle-light; the sheer amount of stuff in the different r... Read more

...and the python came to morning coffee without being asked. Moosey and Ozhm I've just returned from four weeks in Australia where I had a marvellous holiday and was over-awed by the experience. The sheer scale of the country is the first impressi... Read more

Advance and retire are instructions in many Scottish Country Dances but not often used of double decker buses. On Tuesday morning I was waiting for a No 5 bus at Churchhill. The bus appeared on the main road and when the filter permitted ... Read more

I had a truly memorable time at the 50th Anniversary conference of the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA). It was held in the wonderful buildings along the Thames now used as the University of Greenwich, in a heat wave.  Walking where P... Read more

Sicily under blue skies was balm to my soul. There are occasions when everybody needs a week in Sicily. What's there for the writer when you don't speak the language? Well, don't you? Italians have the most expressive hand and body language. I ... Read more