Herry's Journal

Penny in a nighdress and tiara Penny entered our lives when she married my cousin Mike Lawford and came to live at West Tisted. The...

The full text of the 'Dream of Gerontius' by John Henry Newman can be found  here  This is the opening Stanza: GERONTIUS...

I have listened to this BBC programme about Dame Janet Baker with enormous pleasure and interest. She was the natural heir to the ...

 The garden is waking up to spring and the huge hazel is coming out. The euphorbias are already in full bloom and seem not ...

The grass garden at Old Swan House The National Gardens Scheme began in 1927 as a means of raising money for district nurses, by pers...

The original caption is 'The Importance of Not Being Intellectual', but it could just as well be 'The importance of Not Being...

Boodle and Annette in 1989  I had never taken much notice of how much petrol I used, probably the result of having it free from the farm ...

The gardening year always begins sometime in March; in Old Swan House garden it started on 13th March when the grass garden was cut down....

Hazel and John at Litchfield John was a most interesting man; born to schoolteachers in China, as a child he was interned by the Japan...