Many years ago, there used to be a pheasantry in Berkhamsted, although we always referred to it/them in the plural as The Pheasantries. Anyway, Dwight's Pheasantries, reckoned to be the largest in the UK, occupied a tract of land between Ivy House Lane and Bullbeggars Lane on the northeast side of the valley in which … Continue reading Quite a pheasant walk.
Augustus Smith of Scilly, By Piper’s Hole he swore… Every now and again one looks back at the things that one did when one was younger and somehow more immortal than one is now and one thinks to oneself, "Shit, that could have gone horribly wrong." Hmmm… There's a lot of "ones" in that. Hang … Continue reading Scilly sods!
Some songs or pieces of music can transport me mentally (and I'm sure I'm not alone in this) to a fairly specific time and place and the other day one of those songs came on the wireless. More Than A Feeling by the American rock band Boston. The song which is from their debut Album … Continue reading Boston, chalk, other stuff, and I resign!
A Point of Views, A Polish Odyssey, and Other Stories. 