Uneducated opinions about the French Revolution, gleaned from novels and popular histories I’ve recently read Antonia Fraser’s Marie Antoin...

    On Thursday morning I found out  that a video game company had made an elaborate 3D rendering of the Titanic sinking in real time —a ...

"Seasonal produce" is a regular section from my newsletter, reconfigured here for your reading pleasure. I write it to ramp up my ...

It’s just over a year since I announced my blog break .  In that year my father passed away, Shannon and I bought a house in Wellington, I ...

"If I wish to believe that my infancy was an Idyll, I had better not remember any more of it." Troy Chimneys by Margaret Kennedy....