A different view of Barbican and Farringdon...

→ 2-minute trailer of remarkable 1962 film

𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗧𝗪𝗢, 𝗔 𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘

Back in 1962, the European Commission produced a fascinating film about the progress of the fledgling European Community which was launched just five years earlier.

This archive documentary is an eye-opener for anyone who ...

Today’s poem was written for #worldbeeday - a celebration of the famously buzzy insect which occurs on this day every year.

It’s not only the knees of a bee which are so wonderful, but the whole package of one: they’re Earth’s top pollinators and the vast majority of the plants we need for food rely on them going ...

Our summer play - Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie. If you've read the book or seen the film/TV versions, you'll be in for a surprise. The play version is a major rewrite, a decade after the book, and has IMO a much more satisfying ending. It's very different. Photo of Petra, where Acts 2 and 3 are set. Mor...

Good year for the wisteria.

This may be foolhardy on my part (and unwanted on yours) but I’m going to try and share a poem every day again. A mixture of old and new (plus some things borrowed, some things blue).

Here’s an old one from ‘Diary of a Somebody’. It’s called ‘A Brief History of Modern Art in Poetry’.