Prometheus in Aspic

 Following on from my failure to identify the correct provenance of the French Grenadiers à Cheval in my Box "J" (ex-Eric Knowles ...

 I was sorting out The Cupboard the other day, to get the French soldiers into a logical order (which helps a lot with setting up and puttin...

 On the phone yesterday with Stryker, the topic of vintage Hinton Hunts came up, as it tends to. In particular, I was interested in the Hint...

 My wife has been clearing her late mother's house recently, preparing to sell the place. This has not been especially easy in a time of...

 I have a number of refurb jobs on the go at the moment - quite a lot of them, in fact - and I find it satisfying when I complete one, but i...

 Here we go - a song from the time of Louis XIV, reckoned to date from the Franco-Dutch War of 1672-78, and much loved as a marching song by...

 Righto - lovely morning here, so I was browsing through the CD racks, looking for something suitable, to keep me in a mellow mood while I t...