The word water meadows sounds so pastoral, so idyllic, cool on a summers day, grazing cattle, green hay with a slow, sparkling stretch of...

The Manor Farm The rock-like mud unfroze a little and rills Ran and sparkled down each side of the road Under the catkins wagging in the...

I was recently asked to do a tour for a group of students around Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, but the catch was they were studying Jane...

St Swithun’s day falls on the 15th July although we don’t seem to celebrate his feast day much anymore, and nobody’s called Swithun these...