Herry's Journal

Remind yourself constantly of all the physicians, now dead, who used to knit their brows over their ailing patients; all the astrologers w...

I think I could turn and live with animals, They are so placid and self-contained I stand and look at them long and long. They do not s...

Starlings by Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 Danny Green. Click the photo for a larger view

A roadside stall in India

The entrance hall I am reluctant to tell anyone about this magical place, an hotel high in the hills to the south of Florence. These...

The new Valentina in Putney. Click the heading for more photos Valentina, the best Italian delicatessen in south London for almost twenty ye...

Ridding Gate Ridding Gate into Winchester College Meads

Ramesh Balsekar the great Advaita master, has died. Click the heading for some photos of Ramesh and here for a letter from Wayne Liquor...

Photo by Froge on Flickr I have always admired John Bird and The Big Issue which he started 18 years ago to help homeless people earn...