Herry's Journal

Social Distancing “And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games,...

The NGS Party at Hazelby House The NGS held a marvellous party at Patrick and Gabby Hungerford's Hazelby House on a beautiful June...

Beryl Williams was a dear friend for thirty years, who I got to know from the days when she managed a shop in the Royal Exchange to her...

The Raphael Seat and brick piers The Raphael Seat is, in fact, a large piece of sculpture, and now occupies the space in which for some...

When I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the  Third Reich  came to power in the early 1930s. Paramilitary gangs terro...

The King James' Bible at Litchfield Having attended a meditation on the life of William Tyndale at Bossington Church recently, I h...

The Authorised Version of King James' Bible, published in 1611, was translated from the Latin and Hebrew by six committees of scho...

Peter Brueghel the Elder - Nederlandisch Proverbs I am sometimes given to complaining that modern paintings seem to have no meaning or ...

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel the Elder W.H. Auden,  Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never w...

I am not able to write with any authority on grief as I have never experienced it. But others have and do. Instead, I often give friends wh...