Unmitigated England

I love clock towers. Marking the hours above stable yards, regimenting school timetables and a focus point for swifts on summer evenings. He...

Last Friday night saw us in Cirencester, at a private view for another exhibition of the work of Tony Meeuwissen. I've gone on about To...

Abject apologies for my non-arrival yesterday. Unavoidable, so perhaps I should start a new series called Where Was I Yesterday ?, which app...

You know how it is. You have an hour to kill between Nottingham and Derby so you start wandering aimlessly about hoping that something will ...

To Leicester, and on a beautiful autumn Saturday afternoon we find ourselves in the incredible enclave of Belgrave. Once a small village by ...

I'm going to do a much longer blog about this place, but the fountain is the quite jaw-dropping centre (and master) piece. Until the end...

Inundated with Battle of Britain celebrations (celebs flying Spitfires, everyone making Woolton Pie) I turned to Flying Officer X. He was a ...