Market Harborough Arts Fresco 2014

My mother is home but needs a lot of looking after, so I was able to pay only a flying visit to Arts Fresco today. But it was good to see i...

Little Letters - C

Cut the following for Little Letter C from dark A - one 1-1/2" x 4-1/2" B - two 1-1/2" x 3-1/2" strips from light A - on...

Looking For Madeleine: A Book Review

Without comment, posted and preserved for posterity. You will however, find a clip or two below, where Summers and Swan opine on other subje...

Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Watch Your Step

When East Midlands Trains warned its passengers to "Watch Your Step" I used it as an excuse to post the Spencer Davis Group cover...

Back to Purple on the Stiperstones

When the mining industry petered out on the Stiperstones in the 20th century, many of the remains were disguised by the planting of conifers...

Alex Salmond and Rupert Murdoch

“ @SnoozeInBrief : Yeah, an independent Scotland would see a completely new style of politics. #indyref pic.twitter.com/LP5ePulhCH ” Lol or...

William Hague knew of Sir Peter Morrison's possible involvement in child abuse in North Wales

In July I wrote about Sir Peter Morrison and the rumours that circulated about him in the late 1980s. Today's Daily Mail prints an ext...

Donald Sinden and Diana Dors

#2658623 / gettyimages.com Photographed on the set of An Alligator Named Daisy with the eponymous crocodilian and Richard Wattis.

"For very good reasons, Britain's political parties do not campaign on election day"

Iain Martin , billed by the Telegraph as a "political commentator", wins our Bizarre Opening Sentence of the Day Award. He reminds...