Back to Baroque My Great Aunt Aline (Lloyd Thomas) is buried in the churchyard of St Swithun (sic), Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire.
Things to Play With It’s not unusual for families to have furniture that has been handed on through the generations.
Here’s the News “Now here’s the man for whom the news wouldn’t be the news without the news, Heeeere’s Dicky.” (Dan Rowan in Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In)
Bohemian Birthday On this day in 1824 Bedřich Smetana was born. To mark the bicentenary of his birth he was the subject of Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3.
A Miracle in Covent Garden In January we needed to pick a lunch venue before a matinee of The Motive and the Cue at the Noël Coward Theatre on St Martin’s Lane.