I’m not the only one whose diurnal rhythms are seriously messed up for a few days twice a year by the switch to British Summer Time (last weekend) and back again (due this year early morning Sunday 31st October). I know that because of what friends say and by the incredible number of responses to the MP Tim Yeo’s timely… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG

A few weeks ago I inadvertently broke the speed limit (37mph in a 30mph area) on the outskirts of Salisbury. Shortly afterwards the Wiltshire Police gave me the option of a statutory fine of £60.00 and three points on my licence or paying a £60.00 fee to attend a Speed Awareness Course with no points and no further questions asked… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG

 WORLD CLASS MUSEUMS DON’T open up on one’s doorstep everyday, but it’s just happened to me.  ‘Just’ meaning towards the end of last year. But then, given that the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the oldest public museum in the world (dating back to 1678) its astonishing refurbishment over several years  and re-opening  last November does feel like yesterday. It’s taken the… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG

A REMINDER THAT I will one day die came yesterday in a spooky way. My readers may remember that in a previous post I promised to find out whose memorial in the nave of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford,  has the striking skull which stares balefully down at the congregation, sometimes including me. I popped into the cathedral yesterday…CLICK FOR FULL BLOG

A fall of snow is a sudden hushed delight so overwhelming in its transformation of the world about us that we rush to take pictures of it, as I did in mid-January. But the sense of wonder lasts only as long as the snow is virginal, which isn’t long. Soon it becomes a freezing, inconvenient…CLICK FOR FULL BLOG