Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

  This is our apple tree,  so laden with fruit this year that a massive branch actually cracked in the wind one night and broke off  under t...

Here is Hercules, in brown, depicted on an Athenian vase. Eros, standing on his shoulder, offers him one of the golden apples of immor...

We drove up to Yorkshire last weekend, partly to take my daughter back to university, partly to visit old friends in the Dales.  My mother...