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Les Troyens is on this evening, relayed from the New York Met. Caroline and I went along to our local cinema at 5 o'clock, plus picn...

Brother Alberic Stacpoole (as he then was) and I were university contemporaries even though he was more than a decade senior to me. Aft...

Old friends from East Anglia were on a Wales and West tour, and spent last night with us. It was their wedding anniversary, for which they v...

With friends staying the weekend, we were dropped at the end of the Stockwell lane this morning, and set off to walk home, via Coberley. Th...

From Salamanca, we caught a train to Lisbon on Saturday last; and after two happy days there, we are now back home again - via another five ...

This is the time of year when planeloads of pilgrims jet off to Lourdes, Knock etc. for a few days' devotion: all entirely in accord...

The coach disgorged us at Pau station 90 minutes or so later than expected, but no harm was done: indeed, we had rather enjoyed this minor d...