Herry's Journal

I worked in the financial services sector of the City for nearly 40 years, and from the 1980s onwards was increasingly astonished at the off...

Photo by Kei Lawford. Click to enlarge As I came down from the causeway through the theatre, a black snake like a shy god slid into the ...

I don't know if The National Gardens Scheme is replicated in other coutries, but I do know that nothing epitomises the spirit of the...

Corfe Castle, Dorset (National Trust) Click here for rather too many photos of the castle One of the beauties of our countryside are...

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!...