Essays and Diversions

On life and death and such..... Written in January 1989, in Trevignano Romano, Italy     Not being much of a churchgoer, I find living so cl...

 Flow, River, Flow..... I am at The Bridge , watching the river flow....   Simon Russell Beale , or Simon Beale as he was at Clifton College...

We are glad you passed this way..... G L Webster, Trajan's Forum, 1981 Sometime last autumn, when we weren't quite locked down, I wa...

Dubliners I was spellbound.   His head was tilted back like a sword swallower’s, and from his throat issued the sound of steel, ...