Herry's Journal

John Kennedy  In 1963, Kennedy was invited to Amherst College to give  talk  honouring Robert Frost who had recently died. These are  excerp...

On 8th October 2021 the Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, Andrew Kent, came to Stockbridge to thank all those who had played a significant par...

Following the closure of all C of E churches (ie not Catholic ones) in March 2020 because of the pandemic, many people became very disillusi...

  This plaster cast from a display at the British Museum has recently been installed at Old Swan House.  It has given rise to a discussion o...

The Jane Austen display The Flower Festival has been held again in  Winchester Cathedral's after the loss of 2020 and it was spectacular...

 August was not a good month in the garden, apart from the grass which was near perfect after weeks of rain and little sun.  The lawn seen t...

   

  The Second Coming Both sections, in their complex ambiguity, seem so relevant today, as the Taliban move towards Kabul.  What a mess. Turn...

This is extraordinary , but goes to explain how some people think. Fortunately no one that I know! The anti-vaxxers are angry at us. They sa...

              The Distant city - the view from the Mermaid bar on the Gold Coast, Australia   I spend a great deal off my time recording lif...