Monthly Archives: November 2024

These days there’s only one famous Mrs Richmond – my friend the media star Advolly – but I hate to tell her she has, or at least had, a rival! Who was this other Mrs Richmond ?       … Continue reading →

A little way along the Thames from Marble Hill which I wrote about last week is  perhaps the most important of those 18th century riverside sites:  the last remaining part of the villa, grotto and garden built on the banks … Continue reading →

A few days ago I visited two Georgian gardens on the banks of the Thames. One of them was Marble Hill, and  the other Pope’s Grotto which I’ll write about next week. Marble Hill  is the last complete survivor of … Continue reading →

Where can you… … clamber over a Charles Jencks land sculpture …go down an amethyst mine …see gigantic orchids …find out roughly how many kilometres it is to Jupiter …AND have an ice cream … even if you can’t swim … Continue reading →

A few days ago I visited a garden I’d known about for years, but because it’s only open two afternoons a year I’d never managed to visit.    I’d seen images of its ponds and cascades, its red Japanese-style bridges … Continue reading →