Tag: People

  • Shakespeare or Jeremy Kyle

    We crossed the river to Berkeley Castle last night, to watch the Rococo Players perform A Winter’s Tale, an very good they were too. The Great Hall made a wonderfully intimate space for such a performance and brought us up close to big, human emotions. I found it odd that my daughter could be so…

  • Prince Edward – The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

    Prince Edward has put his foot in it about the The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award He says that the possibility of death makes it more attractive to youngsters. Of course he is absolutely right, but was probably a bit insensitive in the way he said it. The parents of those killed while aiming fro their…

  • The Annual Walk

    I had my Annual walk with my friend, the crime fiction author, Andrew Taylor, yesterday. We over do it once a year and today I’m feeling a little stiff. We must have walked ten miles or so. Starting out just below Staunton, in the Forest of Dean, we walked up to the Kymin Naval Temple…