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Blackberry and Apple Crumble

If we had some bacon we could have bacon and eggs but we've got no eggs. That First World War…

7 years ago

Bitter Strawberries

     Farm work is one of the best jobs for getting to know people as they really are. The…

7 years ago

My gaze is clear as a sunflower

Paul Nash's fascination with aerial bombardment led him to an ecstatic vision of “the sky blossoming with floating flowers”. This,…

7 years ago

Partition

"I was so rushed I had not time to go into the details,"  - Cyril Ratcliffe. The political leaders of…

7 years ago

Choosing books by the cover

I once worked in a school where the librarian arranged the non-fiction by the color of the spine. It made…

7 years ago

August 1914

August 1914 What in our lives is burnt In the fire of this? The heart’s dear granary? The much we…

7 years ago

MCMXIV

MCMXIV Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The…

7 years ago

The Good Life

Did you have times like these in your life? Times that you look back on with a sense of loss…

7 years ago

Ballad of the Three Spectres

In Ivor Gurney's nightmarish vision, the dead among the living bear dire warnings and mockery. Ballad of the Three Spectres…

7 years ago

Where’s Your School On This Spectrum? Where Do You Want It To Be?

If you're thinking about branding and how to market your school (and who isn't these days?) then it's good to…

7 years ago

Tweet Tweet

Tweet Tweet There’s a blackbird in my mango tree and I think of Marley and singing songs of freedom I…

7 years ago

Mud Soup

Some culinary disasters can be repurposed. Here is Glen Baxter on polenta: And then there are times when you just…

7 years ago

Russian – American Romance

Russian - American Romance In my land and yours they do hit the hay and sleep the whole night in…

8 years ago

A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street

Here again - for the summer solstice - are those Wittenham Clumps. By the early 1940s Nash’s was in declining…

8 years ago

Home

Home no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when…

8 years ago