‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’
It’s funny how the first flowers of the year – crocuses, daffodils, aconites -seem especially vivid in colour. Are they really brighter than other flowers, or do they just strike us that way because our eyes have gradually adapted to the long drabness of winter? I found these gorgeous things in the park up the road.
I've been watching some of the Winter Olympics on TV and marvelling at the way that the top competitors all seem to achieve times...
This morning I listened to a pleasing report on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, about a neuro-scientific experiment to observe a...
I've been reading An Angel at my Table, the autobiography of New Zealand writer Janet Frame. It's an unusual and absorbing read....
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