Herry's Journal

Patrick and Catherine attending a wedding in the 1930s The debate about good food usually begins with a grouse about social ills and ends wi...

The scope of the Livery Companies' Initiative   When the pandemic struck in early 2020, the Master of the  Drapers' Livery Company ,...

A Congreve Rolling Ball Clock As a schoolboy, I used to stand outside Marsh's shop (now Carter, Marsh) in the Square, Winchester, watchi...

  Announcement by the Suffragan Bishop of Southampton. Deborah Sellin in May 2021  Dear Friends, I wanted to contact you all directly with a...

After such a difficult start to the year - a wet and cold winter, a totally dry March and April with frosts and then weeks of heavy rain, th...

 Adam Roud is a fine sculptor and painter who has an exhibition at he LightRoom, Arlesford in May and June 2021. I have admired his work sin...

I  had my own early visit to Chelsea today. Rosy Hardy, who has won gold for her displays, had prepared for the May show which is now postp...

"Want to know what makes a happy home? The findings of a new study might surprise reveals  @thetimes  in a recent article on the subjec...

  The NGS have produced an inactive booklet 'The Little Yellow Book on Gardens and Health' that can be read as a pdf document here  ...

Go on, stop on By Michael Grey There could, I was reading the other day, be something of a societal change taking place as we emerge from Co...