‘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 have been proofreading my book about Nocturnes, which has reached the stage of being typeset. This is the point at which it starts...
News of the death of the wonderful comic actress Prunella Scales at the age of 93 has reminded me of a little anecdote in my first...
I was lying awake in the night, with music playing in my head as it usually does when I'm awake in the wee small hours. Sometimes I...
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