Best wishes to all my followers from a rather soggy Isle of Wight. We´re having a strange August, aren´t we? One day we´re sweltering under record temperatures and the next we´re getting washed away by a violent thunderstorm. It´s a bit less extreme here because of the moderating influence of the sea, but it´s another […]
Hello from the Isle of Wight. This is the time of year I like the least. The ferries are running again and there are hundreds of cars everywhere. The beaches and other tourist attractions are crowded, with no attempt at social distancing and no face-masks in sight. I realise you´ll think I´m a miserable sod, […]
Here at the western end the Isle of Wight we are slowly starting to emerge from total lock-down. Traffic has greatly increased. The buses are running again to their old timetables (with the passengers wearing face-masks of course) and the ferries to Lymington start sailing again today. This week is even more important for me, […]
Hello from the Isle of Wight, basking in the beautiful summer heat, kept bearable by the gentle sea breezes. It is truly a good time to be marooned in this backwater to continue my writing. I hope you are all able to enjoy similar pleasures. My news this week is that I am carrying out […]
All the evidence suggests that whatever was found was extremely serious – serious enough for the Austrian-born Countess of Chambord to give the priest the equivalent of five years´ salary to search for it; serious enough for his bishop to feel he couldn´t cope with it on his own and therefore sent Saunière to the […]