Humpty Dumpty

‘It was like being born again,’ we heard a woman say on Radio 4. She was talking of coming out of hospital after pandemic treatment.

Like millions of others I have learned to dance during the lockdown. Well, that is not quite true. I must show more modesty. I am more at...

'Nothing will come of it,' said Humpty. I mentioned I had started a blog. 'There weren't such things in my day,' he said. 'We had very...

Well, Humpty and I finally reached Gloucester. We didn't visit the cathedral. Instead we went to look at what I said was an outstanding...

I have to apologise to my readers. On the way to Gloucester Humpty took me to task. He does not approve of my attitude to spots. I like...

I was talking to Humpty. Well, that's not quite how it was. Humpty is an awkward customer. Ask Alice. The trouble is he knows the answer...

Every time we see Jonathan Van Tam at the daily coronavirus briefing, we have an answer to the question: 'Can anything good come from...

Who is this Humpty Dumpty? Where is he? He gets about. We can’t avoid him. From Land’s End to John o’Groats he demonstrates that it’s...

Re Beeching, again The ‘Railway Problem’ is not new and I have an extensive library on the matter including ‘The Train that ran away’...

Lockdown cracks its whip. So does Nature. We continue to walk our dogs, mow the lawn and clip our toe-nails. Needs must when the devil drive

The poet and Dean of St Paul’s, John Donne, kept an open coffin by his desk. It reminded him constantly of the fleeting time he and...

We have heard much use being made of the word 'unprecedented'. We have heard almost as much of 'returning to normal'. But is normality...

When he was a young man, St Augustine asked God to give him chastity and continence ‘but not yet.’ Most of us would say the same about...