Herry's Journal

A bluebell wood near East Kennett, Wiltshire. Click the photo for a larger view

Some friends were lucky enough to be able to visit CERN , the world's largest particle physics laboratory. The most recent experiment be...

Birthday cards from Kei (who knows of my passion for noses as well as my strange habit of making very poor drawings of crocodiles on every...

My step-grandfather  created a garden in memory of his second wife Florence in Coventry, known as Lady Herbert's Homes and Garden . It...

We held a small wake today at The Orangery for Patricia Mayne, a dear friend, who died of motor neurone disease in February. We read the p...

Damascus Even now, as if in salutation, voices welled up along the edge of dusk; first a long-drawn, musical sigh from the mosque of ...

The universe is profoundly weird, even godlike. The Big Bang itself, entirely inaccessible to the tools of scientists, is an extraordinary ...

Edmanson's Close, Tottenham, is one of the almshouses maintained by the Drapers' Livery Company . 60 peaceful cottages are provide...

Gopika Fraser, 24th March 2009 A dear friend and mother to my godson Sean, Niall and Kyle and much loved wife of Iain. On Friday 27th Marc...

St Ronan's my old prep school, on a fine spring day. I attended a memorial service for one of the masters, Burnaby Portal , who had ...