So, I'm watching a programme about houses - people relocating from the city to the country - and all the woman who's hosting it can think of is alcohol ( Read more... )

A year on, eh? Can't believe it's gone so fast... Like many people on my flist I'm going to link to tyrell's list of quotes from the day - I think three of my own are in there, in fact - and just say well done, England. Well done, London. We coped spectacularly on that day and really made me proud to be among you. The total absence of hysteria, the ( Read more... )

Alan Titchmarsh's The British Isles: A Natural History - which is literally that: a historical nature program on the British Isles - always makes me cryIt's a nature program ( Read more... )