Tag: Northumberland
Weather finally smiles on Ford Castle’s al fresco operas
After downpours drenched last year’s performances, and heavy raincloud threatened last Friday’s Carmen, Bernard Trafford reports, Saturday’s Tosca by Opera Brava was at last...
History, ruins, wrecks, an English saint for our time and a...
History invariably provides us with lessons from which we can learn. Politicians tend to dislike such lessons and generally fall into the trap identified...
Going the distance on social distancing
It’s starting to happen – coming to pass, as the Good Book was wont to say. We’re all obliged, at the very least, to...
Back in Godzone, Twenty Years On
We’re back at last in our beloved North Northumberland, after an absence of some three months: the longest, I think, we’ve ever been away from...
Oxford falls out with its tourists
Just two weeks ago, I completed my last day's full-time work, dealing with A-level results: then we headed south to retirement (though not to...
