History

At school history was in books.  Now I have had the chance to live through some of our more recent history and have visited places where history happened, I begin to understand that history is not just in books, it is for real …

Topiary

In my imagination almost any shape is achievable, although in reality my best so far is an (almost) straight hedge …

Travel Plans

The inevitability of spending time travelling … (N.B. quite different from the inevitability of “time travelling” of course!)

Traffic Jam

I’ve been stuck in traffic jams in many countries, but as the M25 hosts my local regular traffic jam here is a limerick featuring London’s “orbital car park” … both as a cartoon and a narrated version.