THE GLORY OF TREES Like most Brits, I am awed by mighty trees. We love them when they are alive, and we love the produce we get from them. Oak was a vital resource in England in medieval times, for building and ship-building. “Heart of Oak” is the marching anthem of the Royal Navy. English … Read more
Fans of “Marlow Murder Club” may recognise this beautiful bridge over the Thames at the bottom of Marlow High Street. Designed by a brilliant engineer, a pioneer of suspension bridges, William Tierney Clark, it was a prototype for a massive bridge he designed to span the Danube in Budapest. What a wonderful feat of civil … Read more
If you look up to the large grey slab on top of this building which was put up there a long time ago, you would learn that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once lived here, briefly. He was running away from his debts. You certainly did not want him as a customer. The headline on … Read more
June 2023 As a child in the 1960s, I loved the humorous poems about cats in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by a poet called T.S. Eliot. From these brief lines, you can get a flavour of the delightful images conjured up for children: “Jellicle Cats wash behind their ears,Jellicle dry between their toes.” … Read more
