One quirk of going to a Cathedral School – well, very particularly, going to St Paul’s Cathedral School – is that when the choristers have to be on hand to celebrate the Queen’ s Platinum Jubilee, the school’s half term becomes seriously out of kilter with everyone else’s.  It won’t happen again in even the […]

Deeply embedded in the late C18th/early C19th, I feel utterly at ease with wearing this sort of monogram on my sleeve  although the sudden rush of ever so slightly warmer weather means for the first time this year I’ve abandoned long sleeves. Never mind, I don’t see myself departing from my new  historical home any time […]