Herry's Journal

The Bavarian Winter Wonderland Christmas Fair in Hyde Park is a great improvement on past fairs. Lots of high quality shops and cafes as w...

Pieter Claesz. Still Life with Drinking Vessels Fortnum & Mason's Christmas window displays are brilliant recreations o...

The Royal Academy's exhibition of paintings by the 19th Century Scottish artists known as The Glasgow Boys shows some charming pictures,...

Doubt that London will have anything as spectacular as this!

One day it occurred to a certain emperor that if he only knew the answers to three questions, he would never stray in any matter. What...

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.   How can he get wis...

The beeches of the Chilterns are at their autumn best just now. Click the heading for more photos

The highest of the famous seven sisters of Beachy Head Almost as lovely are the sheep-cropped fields behind Click the heading for mo...

A perfect B&B on the Kenett in Wiltshire. Click here for some more photos.

A marvellous production of Turgenev's 'A Month in the Country' at the Chichester Festival Theatre on one of the best sets ever ...