The Mouse that Roared…our trip to Central Europe
This year we travelled to central Europe as our son Ross has moved there to be with his partner Barbora. [...]
This year we travelled to central Europe as our son Ross has moved there to be with his partner Barbora. [...]
The coverage this week of Barack Obama’s address, at the memorial to mark the birth of Nelson Mandela 100 years [...]
Grape growers and wine producers are in the front seat of the epic ‘climate change’. The discussion is happening across [...]
Occasionally for me, a few stories in the media coalesce to form a new idea that triggers my need to [...]
Romanesque is a style of architecture and art that appeared during the ‘Dark Ages’ of Europe, following the fall of [...]
Byzantine is a style of art and architecture derived from the Eastern Roman Empire, that survived the fall of Rome [...]
A mattock is a heavy digging implement of ancient origin, useful for digging into heavy or hard soils. All [...]
Spring 2017 Newsletter It’s good to start with a weather report… a bit like the nightly news but in reverse [...]
The hysteria in Britain at the moment, following the election, has fired me up again on the topic of ‘Democracy’. [...]
In my last blog I suggested that creating fine wine is an artistic pursuit. This will mean, by extension that [...]