Unmitigated England

Not getting out much at the moment, as you can see. My shirts have been out on the washing line for two days now, stiff with ice like cardbo...

This is Bird's back cover advertisement from the Britannia and Eve magazine, Christmas 1946 issue. It makes its appearance to wish all m...

This book was a favourite of myself and my two brothers. We continually passed it around like a naughty magazine, serial reading of what was...

It's that time of year when we drop th e children off at school early, leaving them aeroplaning round the playground with arms outstretc...

Comments and requests from adjoining bloggers gets out the unopened packet of ten Guards. Introduced by Carreras in 1960, this was the pack ...

Driving down towards the Eye Brook Reservoir the other night my headlights caught these improvised reflectors on a series of fence posts. Ob...

I hear that it was John Milton's birthday yesterday. There is a massive gap in my education over this seventeenth century poet, and I kn...