“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Tomorrow I’m leaving for a work related trip to Singapore for a w...

"A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins." - Laurie Colwin Friday is the day that I usually talk about f...

"A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. - J.J. Audubon A ...

“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.” – Edith Sitwell For amusement and entertainment, how...

"Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time, But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime." - John Dryden I am currently reading a...

“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” – Alfred Hitchcock Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) is a famous French playwright, whose wor...

“Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.” - William Blake A Poison Tree This poem was published in Songs of Experi...

“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.” - Pearl S. Buck Some days d...

"One man's meat is another man's poison." – Proverb Russian roulette is a well known “dare”, which can be played by peopl...

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffe...

“True Friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” - Charles Caleb Colton The virtual world of 360 is...

“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman.” – Euripides, ‘Medea’ I have blogged before about “Chick Lit” ...

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” - Jean-Luc Godard I have been rather remiss with Movie Mondays in the last couple of week...

The Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire , England is a delightful place for the Folly hunter as it contains tens of these structures in all sor...

James Pulham and Son were eminent landscape gardeners and creators of follies of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and are now most widely ...

Tucked away in the quiet village of Caerwent, not far from Chepstow, in Monmouthshire, is the Dewstow Golf Club, owned and run by the Harris...

Here is another Pantheon wannabe at Stourhead, which is is typical a Garden Folly, an Architectural Ornament of Landscape Design. It was cre...

"An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose." - Alan Patrick Herbert I had a rather tiring couple of days this...

"O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O stay and hear! your true-love’s coming." Shakespeare Today is Epiphany Eve and Twelfth...

“Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.” - Ella Wheeler Wilcox Today is the tenth day of Christmas and in preparat...