When I first attended the Chelsea Show, almost twenty-five years ago, the Grand Pavilion was just a large, very full, canvas pavilion which smelled when it rained. Today it’s a huge hall of displays, stalls and societies under a metal … Continue reading
This gallery contains 16 photos.
By tradition, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show heralds the start of the English Summer and the London ‘season’. The Lords Test Match begins on 9th June ( late this year ), the Royal Academy Summer exhibition on 13th June, … Continue reading
This gallery contains 5 photos.
When I began this web-site I was determined to post upon it only interesting articles about interesting and/or unusual experiences, events and places. Keeping to this criteria, how can I possibly write about the weather? Climate change, a serious subject, … Continue reading
This gallery contains 4 photos.
As I rush around doing lots of last-minute tasks in preparation for one day of over consumption I am struck by the view from my windows in South London, where plant-life seems to have become confused. That confusion could prove terminal, if the … Continue reading
This gallery contains 2 photos.
by our Nature correspondent Passengers on the London Underground are reporting sightings of that most rare, and deadly, form of plant life, Triffidus Wyndhamii, or the common triffid, between Sloane Square and central London today. ‘It’s foliage was swaying, reaching … Continue reading
RSS – Posts