Between the lines
My marriage has brought me into contact with a wide and wonderful community of people who have chosen to live…
Britishness
A box full of Pandoras
Malaya. Sorry. Malaysia. I trip over the word because it is, for me, unfamiliar. I do not think of it…
Hot metal and cold facts
Goodwood Revival. The words either bring a look of consternation to people’s faces or else they break out in smiles…
Local hero
For several years now I have been trying to learn how to judge the quality of pubs as the British…
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
“If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.” One of the most famous and internationally…
Wiping your feet on the last era of elegance
There are icons of manhood.
The magic box
“Here is a box, a musical box. Wound up and ready to play. But this box can hide a secret…