Herry's Journal

David Cornwell 1931 - 2020 John le Carré was much more than the greatest chronicler of the Cold War. He saw the fault-lines in all that fol...

THE GATE OF THE YEAR And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”  A...

One Apus coming into Kobe Pushing the boundaries Following the astonishing sight of the  ONE Apus  arriving in the port of Kobe, there has b...

                                                         The pods at the Greyhound on the Test Stockbridge is dressed better than ever for C...

Nicky with Rosemary Martin. Background - Dodie and Pug Wallis at Hill Farm. Nicky (Lady Nichola) Boyle was a close friend throughout my teen...

Stockbridge Parish Magazine July 2020  Stockbridge opens its gardens for the Church each year, with the east and west ends taking it in turn...

Atlantic Empress On 19th July 1979, the Atlantic Empress , a VLCC of 128,000 grt, fully laden with crude oil from Ras Tanura, was sailing at...

  Seawise University ablaze The Seawise University was the renamed former Cunard liner  RMS Queen Elizabeth , which at the end of her cruisi...

  Rembrandt - Aristotle With A Bust of Homer Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,     And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; ...

  Old Bladbean Stud Garden is a most unusual place, created by one woman from a rough smallholding on ground high on the Kent downs from 200...