You know when you listen to a track that just resonates? Such is the one below for me. The track SEDNA is the Mellow Moment of the week but the whole album – which has only just been released by...
Greetings from a soggy farm with a discontented gaggle of geese, very soggy sheep, angry alpacas, curmudgeonly cows and cockerels, but at least the ducks are delighted. With the Summer Solstice just a...
Hello from a very remote farmhouse near the sea with VERY intermittent, often non existent wifi and absolutely NO phone reception…surrounded by squawking geese, ducks, hens and flaming’ co...
As we start a new month, I start a new adventure in the West Country. It’s a region that has a strange pull on me – and a lot of people. A truly magical, peaceful yet dramatic and inspirin...
Another week, another two famous names gone. What a year this is turning out to be. I’ve spoken a lot recently about the people who have left us to go to a better place and we comfort ourselves ...
This week I’ve been in Stratford upon Avon visiting a friend and his family who’ve emigrated from South Africa because of the increasing unrest in the country. I’ve known him for a q...
This week I visited the Houses of Parliament. For those who have been there, you’ll know what I mean when I say that everything seems so small. The House of Commons – where we see the feis...
As we head into April we’ve said goodbye to yet more familiar names…Ronnie Corbett and Denise Robertson just two to add to an almost unbelievable list of people who have passed on so far this ...
In the early hours of Good Friday, at just past midnight, i was watching a “Play for the Day” on TV. There was a scene involving police cars which I thought rather strange as they seemed t...
HAPPY SOLSTICE! Well we made it Gang, British Summer Time is only a week away! After a cold, dank and grey winter there will be dry, sunny and increasingly warmer days ahead. And as of today’s S...