Easy Retirement

  We are in March 2022 so only a couple of years ago. Nina Stibbe is sixty, forty years since she was last in London as a twenty year old Au...

  This is the story of the guys who started the big studios in Hollywood. Ian Nathan tells us about the light of California, and these figur...

  This time of year, there parts of the lawn where you cannot see grass for all the leaves from the silver birch. I do have a leaf blower th...

  In 1902, a condemned man sits in his cell writing his memoir. Strange that the villain of Kind Hearts and Coronets gets to narrate his ow...

  This was the far border in July. It is dominated by the Hypericum that was planted a good many years ago. These have all been cut back as ...

  There ma y be more posts on this blog about the Robinia Pseudoaca cia (or Mock Acacia)  than anything else. The photo above is from the 13...

  Ian Nathan introduced this episode and told us it was made "so soon after the (Vietnam) war ended" and that it "was a radic...