Month: May 2021

May Gleanings

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. (Ode on Solitude, Alexander Pope) At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve… Continue reading May Gleanings

Milkmaids’ Passage

There was a smutty joke at school. “What went up Judy’s Passage?” “Lupton’s Tower.” This passage connects The Green Park with a courtyard at the end of St James’s Place, previously a stable yard.

Best Friends?

The bond between Churchill and Roosevelt is often cited in histories of the war.

Masterpieces

Yesterday was the first warm, sunny day in London this month.

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Walnut

In this picture the peregrine chick is thirty-six days old. Nathalie expects her to fledge in about a week.

Yellow Sam

It seems rather like buying ones own furniture to build ones own castle, nevertheless that is what Richard Bellew did in 1472 – 1479 at Bellewstown.

An American Dream

As I was writing about the Mustang fighter last week a reader, David Connor, was writing about another Mustang.

Essential Classics

Radio 4’s offerings on weekday mornings do not appeal to me: Woman’s Hour and You and Yours with nothing of much interest in between.

The Mustang

Lynne Olson’s history of WW II (Citizens of London) has some interesting angles.