Nine Day’s Wonder
The name of Will Kemp may ring a bell with you… You'll recall him perhaps, from that fine series, Upstart Crow. And you’ll no doubt remember that 1999 box-office hit…
Hunting the Meaning
I wrote my first post an age ago - actually in 2019. Aiming to give a platform to overlooked history, I invited readers to look at what’s under our feet.…
Sermons in Stone
This post has been long in the making. I owe huge thanks to CR. She hiked uncomplainingly to remote churches, collected photographic evidence of a vast tribe of creatures frozen…
I spy Tom Thumb!
In my last post we were sailing down the Thames, through Docklands to the sea. I thought that I’d come ashore for a short while. The last leg of that…
Sailing downstream
In my last London Docklands post, we were making our way slowly downstream on the Thames. We’d left the pandemonium and over-crowding of the Tudor docklands - and the…
Tales of the River Bank
Now where were we, on our Docklands road trip? Ah yes, we’d come a long way in time - around 1,500 years, but only around a mile or two in…
Stuck in the Middle
Where did we get to on our time travel through the stone age? Ah yes, it’s almost midnight on our imaginary clock… Readers of my previous post will recall a…
Meet the Flintstones
About a year ago, I was given a meaty challenge by one of my keenest readers. (Well, my son actually - he politely reads the posts, to please his mother).…
Pigments of the imagination
In these historic islands, we can’t often see things exactly as they’d have looked through the eyes of our ancestors. Landscapes shift, buildings age and crumble, old things disappear under…
Piers of the Realm
Here’s a nautical post to recall warmer times, in this cold weather. We spent some happy hours at the English seaside last summer. We idled away a few pleasant afternoons…
Victorian values
I’m rather in awe of Jeremy Paxman. Yes, he’s a sharp investigative journalist, and the grumpy presenter of University Challenge, who seems smarter than most of the students. But he’s…
Saint necessarily so
Last year for me, a small pleasure, in that wild west virtual saloon named Twitter, was reading the latest posts from the Reverend Richard Coles. Yes, that one - him…