Unmitigated England

I've been away for so long Blogger have gone and changed the format for writing posts. Anyway, grovelling apologies for such a prolong...

I couldn't resist this. It arrived in this morning's post and of course I had to share it with you. It still has the playing cards i...

Yesterday saw me wandering around the troubled Market Harborough Antiques Market. I won't go into the appalling way the local council ar...

Both my parents worked for Boots the Chemists; in fact they met in the Wellingborough branch. Readers of More From Unmitigated England will...

This heart was captured in a wood two years ago. Seemed an appropriate image for today, but for a brilliant take on Valentine cards you coul...

I rediscovered this detail from a map in the archive, and can't remember where it came from. Except it must have been from a 50s holiday...

This is the head of Admiral Lord Howe, and he stares imperiously out over a hedge as you approach The Lee, up in the land of my maternal anc...