Readers who live in or around Highgate will no doubt have heard of Jackson’a Lane Community and Arts Centre – and about their Christmas lunch. For the last 45 years, from its earliest days as a church, Jackson’s Lane has hosted over 100 older people who would otherwise be alone for Christmas lunch – and …
Food
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 …
Christmas ramblings….
Well, where else could we start but with Boris in his Christmas hat…. To be strictly honest, these are not Christmas but post Christmas Dorset/Wiltshire ramblings, kicking off with most amazing 14th century barn – the longest thatched barn in England according to Wikipedia, now restored to glory and and turned into an art gallery. This …