John Buchan can’t stop thinking about ham. Alfred Hitchcock is frightened of eggs. Charles Dickens is hungry all the time. In Broadstairs I eat British chips and wonder where the seventy eight steps are now.
Tag Archives: England
Hereford
Scrumping back to Paradise: apples, wassailing and the history of cider.
Bosworth Field
An octopus searches for the location of a battle that took place in August, 1485. Facts are disputed. Five hundred years later the body of King Richard the Third is discovered in a social services car park in Leicester. The octopus studies the menu in the battlefield visitors’ centre and notices an absence of Welsh dishes.
York Walls
A pint of beer in Guy Fawke’s birthplace leads to a rumination on war and peace, life and death and a piece of cake.
Tebay Services
A waxed paper sauce pot paradise.
Chesterfield
Apollo 8, the first colour TVs, asbestos, plague and Chesterfield’s twisted spire.
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Inner Farne
A boat trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands escorted by a squadron of puffins.
Whitstable
In which Peter Cushing whispers to his roses.