Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Popular imagination likes its fast bowlers to be ale swilling extroverts

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Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards and John Augustine Snow, poet, thinker, introvert would surely be one of the last to disagr...
Monday, 12 September 2022

There's a woman in there!

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Change hurts. The Daily Telegraph's E.W. "Jim" Swanton once burst out of the committee room here at Lord's, exclaiming in ...
Sunday, 11 September 2022

Asked to name the current players he admired, he replied: "None."

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Where the dreamy Dexter enjoyed flights of fancy, Ray Illingworth was the canny Yorkshireman. Asked by The Cricketer around the time of his ...
Saturday, 10 September 2022

That moment when French culture was at its most refined, most searching

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I've finally understood what this house is about, this extraordinary attempt to make one space after another work without discomfort or ...
Friday, 9 September 2022

A separate pantry for decanting wine

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In this house one room leads onwards, unfolds, interlocks. I stand in your library and can go in three directions. The grand salon leads to ...
Thursday, 8 September 2022

She had not reckoned with the sheer force of routine in a rich nineteenth-century household

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Laura did not achieve the new way of living with her baby which she had wished. She had not reckoned with the sheer force of routine in a r...
Wednesday, 7 September 2022

I have. With icing for his beard. They were fantastic.

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One of the top-selling items in Highgate's small gift shops in a cookie-cutter in the shape of Karl Marx. 'Before we had the cookie-...