Flights of the butterfly

  • STONEHENGE

                Turns out the Scots built Stonehenge. Or at least part of it. The altar stone, apparently, did not originate in either England or Wales, but came from Scotland. It had been assumed that this stone, like the bluestones, came from Wales. But its new provenance is now being used to support claims that the…

  • I DON’T LIKE JAZZ

    I like music. In fact, it is essential to my wellbeing. I have a collection of about five thousand tracks, all genres. They are on a laptop and they play whenever I am in the flat, day or night, awake or asleep. Obvs, the volume is kept down for the neighbours’ sake – just to…

  • The History of Art

    Mike and Pablo Mike was a painter. You may have heard of some of his work. He did the ceiling of a chapel somewhere which everyone raves about. (It was a bit of a surprise for the old Popeydope who was expecting two coats of magnolia emulsion.) Mike had an assistant called Pablo, of whom…