Tag Archives: gardens
What we like right now…Small Island, Secrecy, Sissinghurst
Small Island – superb dramatisation at The National Theatre of Andrea Levy’s novel
Secrecy – compulsive, searing Chernobyl on Sky. Superbly done.
Sissinghurst – plants and history in the Weald of Kent
What we like right now…Larmer Tree, Laura Linney, local legacy
Larmer Tree gardens, Wiltshire, at their most beautiful in June. Definitely worth a visit.
Laura Linney luminous in My Name is Lucy Barton at The Bridge in Rona Munro’s superb adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s novel.
Local history tour revealed the extent of Richard Cloudesley’s legacy some 500 years after his death. Shows what can be done – both good and bad – with “two stony fields”. Cloudesley Annual Review
What we like right now…Scandals, South Africa and Scott Miller
Loving: Russell T Davies’ adaptation of John Preston’s A Very English Scandal. Bunnies can and must go to the BAFTAs. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/may/27/sundays-best-tv-a-very-english-scandal-jonathan-meades-on-jargon
Melissa Scott Miller’s award-winning pictures of North London. http://www.scottmillerart.com/
The South African garden at RHS Chelsea. Robbed of a gold but silver guilt nonetheless.
What we like right now: The Missing, Magical Mystery Tours and The Middling Sort
Spine-tingling storytelling in this second series of The Missing. 
Hugely enjoyable The Beatles Eight Days a Week – the touring years.
Coffee at our nearby museum The Geffrye with its dedication to “the middling sort” and a wander round its chronologically-arranged gardens.
