So, the lovely Mark Halliday died. If you knew him and didn’t know that, then I am sorry you found out here. If you didn’t know him, let me tell you he was a wise, smart, dry, funny, gentle, brave, sharp and probing kind of man, a seeker after truth, a husband and father andContinueContinue reading “Saying goodbye to Mark Halliday, reading one of his poems”
Author Archives: Cole Moreton
Firle: In An English Country Melting Pot
There are few villages more English, more feudal and more fascinating than Firle, nestling quietly in the South Downs. It’s beautiful, ancient and unsettling.
Embrace Your Inner Eccentric
May madness matters. It’s a festival of British eccentricity — from dancers at dawn on the Cerne Abbas giant to maypole plaiting in Gawthorpe. The sinister ’Obby ’Oss has already cavorted through Padstow, but huge crowds will watch the Jack-in-the-Green do the same in Hastings this morning. It is easy to dismiss these things asContinueContinue reading “Embrace Your Inner Eccentric”
How dare you call it that?
The music is ‘Wrapped Up In Books’ by Belle & Sebastian. But you knew that.
‘There are important reasons for staying alive’ Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson leans back in the captain’s chair on board his £18 million racing yacht, as Formula One cars tear along the Monte Carlo quayside just a few yards away. He puts his shoeless feet up on the control panel and – would you believe it – yawns. ‘Sorry,’ he says, grinning. ‘I had aContinueContinue reading “‘There are important reasons for staying alive’ Sir Richard Branson”
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