Words & Fixtures

Drought was declared in half of England on Wednesday 29 July, including London, from whence I escaped Tuesday night, and, on Thursday, the w...

I seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time with picture frames. Yesterday was artwork drop-off day for the Didsbury Open, the second...

I recently had my first proper rural trip away since my hip op, staying in the Yorkshire Dales for a week. I mention it because it inadverte...

Yesterday marked 150 years since Constantin Brancusi was born in a Romanian backwater; looking at Glearth, the same kind of ribbon settlemen...

There's been a lot of coverage to commemorate ten years (yesterday, 10 January) since the death of David Bowie, and the concurrent relea...