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What should we do to help children recover after lockdown?
The Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE was appointed Secretary of State for Education on 24 July 2019.On Monday 8th March all school children in Britain returned to school. Over the last year most had to...
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Sunday 11th July 2021 8pm Italy v England at Wembley Stadium.
The game ended 1-1 after full time, followed by 30 minutes’ extra time that kept the score at 1-1. So penalties followedThe final score 1-1 with Italy winning 3-2 on penalties. Those bald facts...
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THE CROSSING by Manjeet Mann A REVIEW
“Manjeet Mann is an actress, playwright, screenwriter and director. She is the founder of Run The World- an organisation that works with women and girls from marginalised backgrounds and helps to...
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BATH: AN ADUMBRATION IN RHYME by John Matthews (pub 1795) annotated 2021. A...
Adumbration: The act of giving the main facts and not the details about something, or something that gives the main facts: Ben Wiebrecht of Stanford Online High School , Stanford University, is the...
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IS OUR GOVERNMENT TRYING TO DESTROY THE BBC ( British Broadcasting...
BRITISH BROADCASTING HOUSE north of Oxford Circus. Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, in the midst of the Downing Street woes over a party culture in a time of lockdown and CORONA virus...
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REGENTS CANAL WALK (Little Venice to Kings Cross)
REGENTS CANAL WALK (Little Venice to Kings Cross)A sketch map of The Regents Canal showing where it joins The Grand Union Canal at Little Venice and its start at Lime House on the Thames.Wednesday 9th...
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PERSUASION (an adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel by Jeff James and James...
Marilyn and I went to see Persuasion performed at The Rose on Tuesday 8th March. It maybe strange but for somebody who professes to know a little bit about Jane Austen it is a long time since I had...
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REGENTS CANAL WALK CONTINUED. Part 2 (Kings Cross to Kingsland Road.) Part 3...
Tony and John with the statue of Sir John Betjamin in St Pancras Station.Part 2 KINGS CROSS TO THE KINGSLAND ROAD HACKNEY On Thursday 24thFebruary John and myself joined by Tony Brown, continued the...
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A WALK ALONG THE WEY NAVIGATION from Pyrford Lock to Newark Lock and Ripley...
Tony Brown and I beside The Wey Navigation.Thursday 6th October 2022. Tony and I went for a walk. We go walking together often, along with John Lodge. John couldn’t make it this time so Tony and I...
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POEM OF THE WEEK : Lightning Strike by John Clegg
Within the culture section of the Guardian there is a poem of the week published with a commentary and analysis. This poem, The Lightning Tree by John Clegg was published in The Guardian on the 9th...
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VOICES IN THE PARK by Anthony Browne a review.
I recently read a review about a book of essays analysing, MAUS, a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman. The opening essay is by Philip Pullman. Other writers provided their analysis...
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Highgate and Hampstead, a leafy land of legends. (part one)
Highgate SchoolI wonder if anybody will, or perhaps they already have, written a thoroughly researched study of pollution and waste and its influence on urban development? A chapter may include the...
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Highgate and Hampstead, a leafy land of legends. (part two)
John and I in Highgate.24th February 2023. John and I returned to Highgate for a second time and got out at Highgate Tube and walked down the High Street which was becoming familiar territory to us...
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Highgate and Hampstead, a leafy land of legends. (part three)
Back in Hampstead with Tony Brown and John Lodge.28th March 2023 Between walks the three of us, John Lodge, Tony Brown and myself often search for information and further ideas for our walks. I found a...
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PILGRIMAGE ? A meditation on pilgrimage and walking round my local park.
Geoffrey Chaucer depicted in an early version of his Canterbury Tales.Between 1386 and 1387 Geoffrey. Chaucer lost favour with King Richard II. Chaucer’s mentor, John of Gaunt and advisor to the...
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THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS)and my recent experience with it.
Aneurin Bevan.A HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE:On the 5th July1948 the National Health Service was born. An apt use of personification. The NHS has helped bring ,probably, tens of millions of...
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ON RAILTON ROAD a review
On Saturday 18th November my wife Marilyn and I attended the matinee performance of ,”ON RAILTON ROAD,” performed at The Museum of the Home,in Shoreditch. The play has been sold out. A great success....
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A REVIEW of Northanger Abbey a play by ZOE COOPER
ActorsHEN: Sam Newton : Henry Tilney. CATH Rebecca Banatvala: Catherine Moreland IZ: AK Golding : Isabella ThorpeREVIEW Jane Austens Northanger Abbey is often seen as a bit of fun. A swipe at...
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LEGION: life in the Roman Army. A review. (An exhibition at The British Museum)
Head of Emperor Augustus, the creator of the career soldier. 27-25BC.The British Museum have a new exhibition about the Roman Army. It is the first time they have had an exhibition specifically about...
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Could I have a conversation with Jane Austen about life?
My dog eared copy of the Penguin Classics version of Pride and Prejudice.On Sunday 7th April I was invited to take part in a ZOOM meeting with the JASNA Vermont group. Deb Barnum had sent me a notice...
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THE CLUB
Dr Johnson and the first members of The Club meeting in a second floor room of The Turks Head Tavern.In 1764 , two friends, Sir. Joshua Reynolds and Dr Johnson gathered a group who called themselves...
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UNDERSTANDING GEORGE WICKHAM
George Wickham and Lydia BennetIs George Wickham, in Pride and Prejudice, more complex than we thought?Wickham is one the most loathed characters in a Jane Austen novel. He first appears in Meryton...
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JANE AUSTEN the PUNK ROCKER.
It’s strange how various things can come together to get you thinking along a new track.I had read something about Edmund Burke and his extreme conservative views that believed traditon and the status...
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JANE AUSTEN and THE ROYAL NAVY
1787 portrait of Admiral Edmund Afflech.Jane Austen knew a lot about the Royal Navy of her time. Her novel Persuasion, is often referred to as her naval novel because of the three key characters...
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A review of THE TOUR OF DR SYNTAX In Search Of The Picturesque by William...
The title page of ,"Doctor Syntax in search of The Picturesque."This is the second volume of a series of 18th century books edited by Ben Wiebracht and his students. Ben’s idea is that his pre...
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