A fool on a hill

It's going to be obvious anyway from this post - but I am a staunch Remainer. There. Said it. I think we should stay in the EU for many ...

We don't often get much snow in this part of Somerset (the Mendips) - so here are a few pictures to celebrate the heavy snowfall on Thur...

Something a little bit different for today's post. I volunteer on the SS Great Britain, Brunel's famous ship, permanently moored n...

A friend recommended this book to me, and I'm so grateful to her! It concerns Count Alexander Rostov, a Russian aristocrat who in 1922 i...

This is a riveting read, though not a comfortable one: indeed, how could it be in any way comfortable when at the heart of it is a brutal ra...

As it says on the cover, this is a mathematical mystery. But don't be frightened. I'm utterly useless at maths, but I managed! I...

Today, a review. It's always difficult to assign an age range to a book, but I'd say this is somewhere in the region of 10+. It'...