Arts
Big Bash 2023
Time and place 21st – 22nd/23rd July 2023 at the Gate Hangs High. Accommodation Many of us will be camping in one form or another at the GHH, there is a very large field with [more…]
Culture
Arts
A View From The Greenhouse; Please Make It Stop!
Finally got the layout finished with the completion of the four (slightly) raised beds. In the final analysis (for this season at least) I decided not to permanently fix them down with corner pegs as [more…]
Arts
Going It Alone
Almost fifty years ago I booked a package holiday to Austria. I was young, impressionable and thought that by having everything organised I could play the quintessential Englishman abroad. How wrong I was. The “family [more…]
Arts
A Postcard From The Third World
(I) It is 5-30am and children come out of the gloom like ghosts in silent procession. They are laid heavy with satchels, wear blouses and shirts which are so white that they hurt your eyes [more…]
15th Century
Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard III, Act 1 Scene 1
A small confession: my first introduction to this opening soliloquy was as a child on a Saturday afternoon from none other than Arnold Judas Rimmer in Red Dwarf. He and Lister are marooned and, to [more…]
Arts
Macbeth Act 1 Scene 1
Welcome to the second of Crom’s Deep Dives. I was touched by some of your comments on the first of this series and found they motivated me to find the time to commence this second [more…]
Culture
A View From The Greenhouse; New Beginnings
It’s that time of year again, when I choose to bore the bi-weekly pants off you all by relating my erstwhile greenhouse adventures and, more often than not, misadventures. As always this “diary” will be [more…]
Arts
Valuing our land area
We’ve forgotten something important I’ve always been a bit of an oddball, so the following may reflect that. But it seems to me that the British people, and perhaps the people of the West in [more…]
Arts
Crom’s Deep Dive: Richard II, Act 3 Scene 2
“Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs” The first in this series of Deep Dives will look at the language and linguistic devices employed in Act 3, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Richard II. First, [more…]