The recent couple of weeks of sunshine – what we in England call ‘summer’ – has left the water level down a bit in my garden pond. Apparently a pond evaporates by about one inch per [...]
This year we should see the construction of a luxury housing development within the iconic gasometer by The Oval cricket ground – the historic grade II listed metal lattice that has looked down [...]
This time last week, Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous groundhog (the world’s only famous groundhog) was emerging from his burrow to make his annual weather prediction. If he [...]
Here’s a story that might have escaped your attention. Back in 2019 a company called Trelleborg Sealing Solutions got together with students at Tewkesbury School to make the world’s [...]
Among the many works of Oscar Wilde that I haven’t read is an essay called The Decay of Lying, which contains the pithy little quote: “Life imitates art more than art imitates [...]
