Jean Sibelius

I have been trying for a while now to get my head around the music of the great Finnish master,…

RHS Harlow Carr in November

We’re well into Autumn now, with Winter just around the corner and, so it feels anyway, approaching fast. The gardens…

Thoroughly autumn now of course – though nonetheless beautiful for all that. We may yet have been a little early…

Kay and I spent a long weekend just north of Berwick, partly in celebration of her birthday. We know that…

Meteorologically autumn, but still feeling like summer on a lovely, blue-skied day. The gardens are still full of life and…

We’ve been to Scarborough many times, but this was in fact our first visit to the North Bay. Parking was…

I used to be the vicar of Bilton in North Harrogate, this was back in the 1990s! A favourite dog…

The weather conditions were bright and breezy and as we left after our reasonably early visit, the crowds were arriving…

Three things in fact. The first was a re-reading of a book by Cole Moreton, entitled “Is God still an…

Thorpe Perrow is a rather fine arboretum near Bedale in North Yorkshire. It’s obviously a place with a history which…