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Ida was one - and the one - yesterday. A tea party took place, Ida in her Tripp Trapp chair surrounded by friends and relations of all ages ...

Last evening, Michael and Sarah Burrell gathered a huge number of friends around them for a party in the Great Hall of Chelsea Royal Hospita...

From this photograph of Bill that I took five years before his death (last Autumn), you might think he was a Master of Wine, or possibly eve...

Our nearest Council tip is just up the hill from us here in Leckhampton. It's just back from the Cotswold edge, close to some old open-c...

It's rare to hear two quite different lectures in the same day, each so full of wise words, and so well delivered. I would have been gla...

We have all the grandchildren staying here, so Caroline delegated dog walking to me this morning. We trespassed, dog and I, up near Withingt...

Well, perhaps not a full-blown Whoop!, but even a round of applause is rare enough in St Gregory's church! At the Induction this evening...

Cheltenham acquired a new piece of public art earlier this year: a statue of Gustav Holst now stands in the centre of the fountain in Imperi...

Our literary festival has forged good links with the Royal Shakespeare Company over the years, though there have inevitably been last-minute...

My sister Sarah is staying with us for the Literature Festival: she is keen to see as many events as possible, whereas we (old hands) are fe...

Reverting to what I was saying yesterday, if the minutest fraction of the money that is being injected into the banks were somehow directed ...

As I said on Monday , we all love local food. But by last month we four had already eaten all the potatoes I planted this year. This week ...

Thanks to Google Analytics, I can tell that my blog has been read in 23 countries - what they must make of it in South Korea, I am not sure ...

I wasn't much looking forward to seeing this Cheltenham Film Society offering, after the diasappointment of last week's screening. ...

Agnes had friends to lunch, to celebrate her birthday, so Caroline and I went to Winchcombe. For the past couple of years, The White Hart ...

"HFA" stands for "Hadfield Fine Art", which was unknown to me till yesterday, when we tumbled upon its Autumn Exhibition...

I was not particularly looking forward, yesterday, to turning out for my third concert on consecutive evenings. But it was terrific. We we...

I have been out every night this week - a sign that the Summer holiday period is well and truly over. Monday saw the first meeting of our c...

Paul McKee dressed very much for the occasion on Friday evening last, for the opening of Surrealism Returns at Cheltenham Art Gallery. I ...

On Friday last, Paul Newman died. For some 50 years he was an icon to my generation of film buffs; but reading his obituaries you see a big...

My beautiful Goddaughter, Lucy was married yesterday to her friend of long standing, Ash Mayne. It was a joyful ceremony, conducted with gr...

Two months ago, I posted an update on Davis family news: perhaps it's time for another one. We took the house off the market a couple o...

Warwickshire County Cricket Club are today celebrating their victory in the County Championship - albeit only its second division. But thi...

Four years ago, we were on holiday in Asturias, staying with Caroline's cousin Lizzie. She drove us up into the mountains one memorable...

I took this photograph standing at the window of a Chinese train: we were visiting Agnes during her gap year. I don't know if the smoke ...