Favourite Music

Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium

This was one of wolfiewolf's earliest favourites, which he used to play with his brother Piers on an old gramophone. With thanks to a friend, Nigel of the Thomas Tallis Society and to Zenera for showing me where to find this amazing music site

A Good Year

A favourite film

A similar place - lunch in Sausse

The Snow Country

The first line of this marvellous book is perfect:

'The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country'.

Yasunari Kawabata

Favourite Places - Hotel Bristol

Another of my favourite places. The Hotel Bristol in Paris

The Summer of 1967

Herry's family and friends having tea in the bottom of the swimming pool at Stocks in October 1967

Left to right: Tim Handcock, Belinda Martin, Cilla Clempson, unknown, Annette (with Justin in her arms), Mike Lawford (probably - back to the camera), Annie Skipwith, Patrick, Belinda Luxmoore (kneeling), Jess (in chair), Nick Duke, Ricky Skipwith, Piers

I guess I was the photographer even then - but where is Fuff?

Click on the link below to hear what we were listening to in those far-off days

Favourite Places - The East Banqueting House

The East Banqueting House, Chipping Campden

Wadwick House

Wadwick was where my grandmother Nina Herbert lived for the last ten years of her life. It's at St Mary Bourne, near Whitchurch in Hampshire. Click the heading for more detail and family history

Richmond

A spectacular day to drive to Hampshire across the Thames below Richmond.

Earth Hour 2007

The World at Night

A 'lights out' will take place in Europe for five minutes at 18.55 on Thursday 1st February to encourage people and governments to take global warming more seriously.





The second image by Anna Stahlberg is of skiing in Are, Sweden in the same week, where fortunately it was -22C. London however has just experienced its warmest January for a century (see the third image taken in St James' Park on 31st January where even at 5pm it felt as warm as spring).



Lights Out at the Orangery. We didn't want to go back to electric light...

Ruth

Ruth Howard (nee Pugh, later Stevens) at her nursing home in Lexden, Essex near her daughter Auriol. My mother's first cousin, they played and rode together as children as described in this fragment. She lived near us in Hampshire and was always close - and known as 'Aunt' Ruth. After my mother died she became father's companion. Still beautiful now at 96.