Herry's Journal

Some of my favourite views are closer to home. This is of Koko waiting for her breakfast

Photo by Vincent Laforet for the New York Times What a great idea! Full marks to Bloomberg for giving Olafur Eliasson his head!

I'm not that keen on Camus, still less on Sartre, but this is a marvellous piece of biography / literary criticism and makes me want to ...

Modern logistics never cease to amaze me. There has been quite a bit of eBay shopping going on in this house recently, and the results march...

All gardens betray their owners' quirks. That low brick wall is supposed to slow a flood after heavy rain so that the drains can cope!...

My daughter has introduced me the the incredible art of HR Geiger, who among other things, was the designer for Alien. Click the heading f...

Pont - The Importance of Tea 'Watching the English" analyses the characteristics of the English through the eyes of an anthropo...

My favourite cartoons are those of a gentle British cartoonist who called himself 'Pont' and who drew for Punch in the 1930s. This i...

"You're going to meet a good many stray fools in the course of business every day without going out to hunt up the main herd after...

A few favourite bedtime books for children - The Dog That Dug, Where the Wild things Are and The Hairy Book