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Monthly Archives: May 2015
A Rainy Day in London Town
Last Thursday I attended a meeting – a brain-storming session, actually – of Unbound authors, in a room upstairs in the theatrical pub The Swan at Shakespeare’s Globe, on the south bank of the River Thames in Southwark. The last … Continue reading
Posted in books, My life
Tagged Edwina Currie, HarperCollins, london, QR codes, Shakespeare's Globe, Southwark, The Way the Truth and the Dead, Unbound
The Death of ‘Otzi’ , the Alpine Iceman
The film I made last summer in the Alps was screened at 9.00 PM on May 11th as part of a new documentary series, Mummies Alive on the Yesterday channel. The programme was about the internationally celebrated ‘iceman’, now known as … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting
Tagged iceman, Lindow, mummies, Mummies Alive, Otzi, Tollund, Yesterday Channel
High Spring, 2015. Part 2: Among the Trees
I mentioned in Part 1 of these High Spring blog posts that we had planted trees between our house and garden and the open Fen country that lies between us and the Wash. North-easterly gales from the North Sea can … Continue reading
A bit more about Alan Cadbury
My books about the exploits of Alan Cadbury are based on a series of informal interviews or discussions between him and me. In the case of The Lifers’ Club nearly all our talks happened several months after the events I … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, books
Tagged Alan Cadbury, Lifers' Club, The Way the Truth and the Dead, Unbound
High Spring, 2015. Part 1: Away from the Trees
One of the great pleasures of the English climate is the way that each season has its own character and indefinable atmosphere, both of which vary from year to year. This year started with an average January, after a much … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged cowslips, Fritillaria meleagris, primroses, Primula veris, Primula vulgaris, snakes head fritillaries