My foxy Brexit dinner party
With Brexit political talk about to come to a happy conclusion – at least, so I thought! – I felt an urge to splash out on a dinner party.
Unknown Joey and his best known memorial
If you'd like to be remembered long after your death, forget our modern notions of ashes from the mortuary or a smart grave somewhere. At least, that's the impression I get from the memorial to a local lad who died on London's southern A3 boundary.
Three cheers for a very determined lady
You've got to hand it to the girl: solo yachtswoman Jeanne Socrates is doing amazingly well on her 173rd day away from humans, on her own.
Lucky, plucky solo sailor Jeanne, 76
How can it be, asks a reader from Italy, that our solo Brit round-the-world sailor, Jeanne Socrates, aged 76, avoids serious problems.
Going daffy over our Springless daffs
Spring might well be late this year, but then it was last year, too. Perhaps we should be getting used to it, even though some lessons are not easy to learn.
