OK – so you thought that polo was only for rich toffs in Windsor Great Park – but let me put you right….. You don’t need a string of ponies and posse of grooms. A polo session will not cost you much more than a hacking session, you need neither experience nor a pony – …
Leonardo at the Queen’s Gallery
This is far too amazing an exhibition for me to even think of trying to describe it – so I will just urge anyone who is likely to be in London between now and the end of October to put it on their itinerary. (Please excuse the quality of the images which often include the …
Queen Anne’s Lace and the Oare marshes
Looking out from the coastal path at Harty Ferry near Faversham, it is all but impossible to see where the dappled gun metal grey of the clouds meets the shimmering pewter of the Thames estuary – fringed, at high tide, with dark brown wet seaweed. The path runs along the Oare marshes, a birders’ paradise …
Sculpture in Cotswolds
If you were looking for a home for an outdoor sculpture exhibition you could scarcely do better than the Old Rectory in Quenington, deep in the heart of the Cotswolds. Down the winding lane past the sixteenth century church, through the archway, into a gravelled courtyard. Plants to buy ranged down one side, the long …
Roses in bloom in the garden
For more – not to mention the destruction wrought by the snails….. – see the Garden pages.
Lovely people in the Cotswolds…
A few weeks ago I took myself to Longborough Opera Festival, in the heart of the Costwolds. Perched on the top of a hill overlooking a rolling green valley sits ‘the big house’ – neo classical terra cotta and creamy Cotswold stone. Across a generous courtyard and behind some trees nestles a dinner tent and …