Not Busy Lizzie

Infrastructure is one of those long words like perspicacity and marmalade.

Books by the Bridge

The internet and AbeBooks has taken a lot of the fun out of shopping so I was pleased to come across Hurlingham Books near Putney Bridge on Monday. It is a browsers’ paradise, stacked high with a marvellous miscellany of everything under the sun.

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Spain and the Hispanic World

How to spend it? Philanthropists in the past have spent fortunes building collections that are internationally acclaimed for their quality today.

Easter Eggs

The peregrine falcon has laid four eggs this year in the nesting box on a high, north-facing ledge on Charing Cross Hospital.

Big Bang?

It took God six days to create the heavens and Earth. Max Hastings writes about thirteen days in 1962 when Mankind tried to destroy a good part of His work.

3 D Donatello

You may have been to the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam.