Herry's Journal

One of the most brilliant aspects of Le Nôtre’s concept was the use of an optical illusion known as ‘anamorphosis abscondita’, resul...

The Test at Wherwell Recently, I was fortunate enough to be invited for a day's fishing on a beautiful stretch of the river at Aw...

Oscar Wilde De Profundis is a wonderfully wise, profound and moving letter written by Oscar Wilde from Reading Jail, and is  here rea...

The garden in early autumn The grasses and euphorbia seen through verbena The brighter colours of autumn Return to Jo...

Lines of Thought – Isabel Seligman Isabel Seligman has written a marvellous book on drawing for the British Museum that I started readi...

Donald Friend I have been lucky enough to visit the Art Gallery of New South Wales several times, most notably for the Freida Kahlo e...

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford who - with Sammy Davis Jnr and Joey Bishop - comprised The Rat Pack This photo comes from ...

I avoided writing anything about the EU Referendum here as I, along with the majority of voters, hardly credited the possibility of Leave w...

The garden is now pretty mature, having first been planted in the autumn of 2013 and the spring of 2014. The yew hedge is about four feet ...

The view over Stockbridge and the Test Valley towards Stockbridge Down on a summer evening