Herry's Journal Index

Latest Posts

Family Reunion in Stockbridge and Holiday in the South of France July 2022

Obituary - John Spreadbury 1931 - 2022

Alan Watts Quotations

Mottisfont Rose Garden 2022

Favourite Gardens - Houghton Lodge - June 2022

Chelsea Flower Show 2022

What is the Price of Electricity?

Going Solar March 2022 

Michael Ignatieff on Consolation - the Book of Job and the Psalms 

Favourite World Radio - KPCC at 89.3FM

Lighting the Garden at Old Swan House

The Sculpting of My Bust

Tbe Making of the Florentine Garden 

Giles Wingate-Saul 1945 - 2021

Stockbridge in the Age of the Coronavirus - the DL's Visit 

Poetry

What is Poetry?

President Kennedy's Talk own Poetry and Art at Amherst (1963)
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 
Favourite Poetry - The Four Quartets
Favourite Poetry - The North Ship
Favourite Poetry - Akhmatova
Favourite Poetry - Pablo Neruda
Edna St Vincent Millay - Love is not All
Edna St Vincent Millay - Eight Sonnets V
Edna St Vincent Millay - Dirge Without Music
Favourite Poetry - Poesie Mondaine, Bestemmia 619
Favourite Poetry - John Henry Newman's 'Dream of Gerontius'
Favourite Poems - Heine - A Young Man Loves a Maiden 
Favourite Poetry - Wind
Favourite Poetry - October
Favourite Poems - Ithaca
Favourite Poems - Kindness
Favourite Poems - Beloved Earth
Favourite Poems - C9th Chinese Poem on Old Age
Favourite Poems - Heraclitus
Favourite Poems - Beloved Earth 
Favourite Poems - Animals
Favourite Poems - Stag's Leap
Favourite Poems - The Wilderness
Favourite Poems - No Man Is An Island
Favourite Poems - The Wound in Time
Favourite Poems - A Shropshire Lad

Favourite Poems - Any Woman

Favourite Poems - The Gate of the Year

Favourite Poems - The Second Coming -WB Yeats

John Keats - On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer
The Patience of Ordinary Things
Kei's Poetry - Ego Sum
Kei's Poetry - The Dressing Table
Kei's Poetry - For Obachan
Favourite Carols
Favourite Songs - Kathleen Ferrier 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Favourite Music - Dame Janet Baker

Writings
The Story of the Fox (The Little Prince) 
Favourite Writings - Big Wolf Little Wolf
Favourite Writings - Louis 1, King of the Sheep
Favourite Writings - Beyond Euphrates
Favourite Writings: Jalaluddin Al-Rumi
The Dazzling Fluidity of Days
Favourite Writings - The Lycian Shore
Favourite Writings - More Freya Stark
Favourite Books - 'Wait For Me' by Debo Devonshire
Favourite Bedtime Books

Favourite Books - The Night Land
100 Books Famous in Children's Literature
100 Books Famous in Children's Literature - the List
Favourite Writings - Jalaluddin al-Rumi
Favourite Writings - Bruno Schultz 'August' 

Favourite Writings - Brazilian Adventure
Favourite Writings - Desiderata

Favourite Writings - Bernard Levin on a Wexford Opera 

The Lasting Legacy of Ovid
John O'Donoghue at Glenstal Abbey
Things We Learn in Time
The River Test
The Stanzas of Dzyan
Astravakra Gita
I Am Shiva

Favourite Writings - Alan Watts Quotations 

Baseball by John Updike
The Other Song of Solomon

Do You Understand Climate Change?

The Economist on Climate Change July 2021
Peace
Blithe Moment
Jane Austen
Edith Wharton
The Song of the Weather
The Snow Country
The Forms of Love
The Scientist and the Universe
The Scientist and the Universe II
Ruskin on Pugin's Conversion to Roman Catholicism

Bertrand Russel's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens and People
A Study of History
Hannah Arendt on Lies and Propoganda

The Oprah Winfrey Interview - A View from the Stands

The Bishop of Winchester 'Steps Back'

The Church Closers' Charter 

Oscar Wilde - De Profundis 
A History of Intimacy
Wise Advice - Sally Brampton
More Wise Advice - Sally Brampton
Life by Biance Sparacino
The Five Signs of Lack of Intelligence
Cognitive Biases
The Book of Kells
Watching The English
De Profundis - Oscar Wilde

In Praise of Cats - Christopher Smart
Isaiah Berlin
Favourite Quotes - John Ruskin
Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Favourite Writings - Ecclesiastes
Favourite Writings - Friendship
Favourite Writings - Love Undetectable by Andrew Sullivan
Favourite Writings - The Tao Te Ching
Favourite Writings - Seneca - We Are All Chained to Fortune

Existing By Your Presence Alone - Anais Nin
Thoughts of Others on Social Distancing and Lockdown
A Brief History of Plagues

How Anti-Vaxxers Think

Pushing the Boundaries by Michael Grey

Treating Seafarers Decently - Michael Grey 

On Society in an Age of Populism - Edmund Burke

John Le Carre by Matthew d'Ancona December 2020

Why Conspiracy Theories Survive the Failure of their Prophecies

The Big Lie and How to Do It

Wisdom Isn't What You Think It Is

What Makes a Happy Home?

Why Satan Should Chair Your Meetings

Vandana Shiva on Quantum Theory 

Comment

Stockbridge in the Age of the Coronavirus July 2020

Stockbridge in the Age of the Cornavirus II - the DL's Visit
Post-EU Referendum Blues
Fracking - a Real and Present Danger
Stockbridge and the Storms of February 2014
Grave Threat to Longstock and Stockbridge from Developers 
Destruction of the Winchester College Wingnuts
Falloden Nature Reserve Closed to Walkers
The Curious Case of the Middle Lane

Some Inadequate Words on Grief

William Tyndale - the Translator of the Bible
King James' Bible and the Book of Common Prayer
For the Love of Dogs
The Curse of Road Noise

Food Shopping in Winchester
The End of Cadogan

Food Shopping in Winchester
In Praise of Fluting
The Poison of Bonuses

The Part Played by Insurance in the Financial Crisis 200

The Scourge of Intensive Farming

Thoughts On Our Food Culture

On the 'Sport' of Shooting
The Mystery of Crop Circles
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Inequality - A Growing Problem
Illogical Arguments
Games People Play
Slideshows and The Little Prince
The Dazzling Fluidity of Days

Early June Morning
The Joy of Fly Fishing
The Big Issue

Confessions
Geography and How We've Lost It
The Highway Code in 100 Words
The Joy of Cricket

The Joy of Shaving
Leonard Cohen The Master
Favourite Songs - Leonard Cohen
The Joy of YouTube
Farewell Tempo
The Rat Pack
The Lexus
Heron Wars in Stockbridge
Why I Prefer Pubs to Restaurants 
Slideshows and The Little Prince
Treasure Island and the Avoidance of Tax

Favourite World Radio - KPCC at 89.3FM

Michael Ignatieff on Consolation - the Book of Job and the Psalms 

Obituaries and Eulogies

Dirge Without Music
Some Inadequate Words on Grief

Nicky Boyle 1946 - 1997
Rosie Jenks 1943 - 2005
Gopika Fraser 1965 - 2009
Cmdr Colin Balfour RN 1924 - 2009 
Norman Buckingham 1918 - 2010
The Rev Hamilton Lloyd 1919 - 2011
Suzanne Lloyd 1923 - 2011
Sally Macpherson 1940 - 2012
Nick Duke 1945 - 2013
Richard Shaw 1940 - 2013
S Venkiteswaran 1941 - 2013
Joanne Louise Taylor (Jo Johns) 1939 - 2014
Ernie Stiles - 1941 - 1914
Lucie Skipwith 1942 - 2014
Annie May Spawton 1944 - 2014
Kate O'Brien 1953 - 2017
Bill Birch Reynardson 1923 - 2017
John Kay 1936 - 2019
Penny Lawford 1944 - 2019
Lucy Luxmoore 1953 - 2019
Beryl Williams 1949 - 2020

Giles Wingate-Saul 1945 - 2021

John Spreadbury 1931 - 2022

Events

Herry's 70th Birthday Party July 2015
Lawford Lunch at the Drapers' Hall 2014
Winchester College 50 Years On Dinner 2014
Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2016
Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2014
Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2013
Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2012
Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2011
Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2010
Wellbeing of Women Christmas Fair at the Drapers' Hall 2009
The Royal Hospital Carol Service 2009
The Royal Hospital Carol Service 2010
The Royal Hospital Carol Service 2011
The Royal Hospital Chelsea Dinner 2010
Fine Cell at the V&A
Fine Cell at the Drapers' Hall
Fine Cell at the Leathersellers' Hall 2009
Fine Cell at the Leathersellers' Hall 2009
Fine Cell at the Glaziers' Hall
The Drapers' Almshouses
The Drapers' Almshouse Outing to Winchester 2009
The Drapers' Almshouse Teaparty 2007
The Drapers' Almshouse Teaparty 2008
The Drapers' New Year's Service

United Guilds Service 2010

United Guilds Service 2011
The Mission to Seafarers Carol Concert 2008
The Mission to Seafarers Carol Concert 2009
The Mission to Seafarers Carol Concert 2010
Stockbridge Christmas Evening Shopping 2014
Remembrance Sunday at Litchfield
Christmas at Blenheim 2016
Winchester Cathedral Carol Service 2016
Winchester Portrait Exhibition 2017
Dedication of 'Ascension' for the SAS at Hereford Cathedral
Litchfield Flower Festival 2019

A Memorial to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Litchfield, April 2021

The Livery Companies' Initiative during the Pandemic 2020 - 2021

Going Solar March 2022 

Travel and Places

My Travelling Life
Memories of the Taj
Timeless India
Puttaparthy
India - the Cradle of Language, Astronomy and Science
Favourite Cities - Beirut
Russia - The Wild East
Favourite Places - Palace Hotel, Tokyo
Favourite Places - Winchester Cathedral
Favourite Places - Wells Cathedra
Favourite Places in Autumn - Japan
Favourite Places - Landmark Trust Castles
Hampshire Views - Stocks Farm and Old Winchester Hill
Favourite Places - Stockbridge

Favourite Places - Lime Wood

Favourite Cafes - Under the Office
Favourite Churches - Sherborne Abbey

The Great Churches of te City of London

The Orangery 1998 - 2012

The Orangery Garden 1998 - 2012
Old Swan House History
Christmas Scenes in London
Christmas Scenes 2008
Mottisfont Abbey in Winter
More Frosty Walks

Ginny Moore of The Lucky Parrot

Autumn Walks in Winchester
Favourite Houses - Hinton Ampner
Favourite Places - The East Banqueting House
Favourite Restaurants - The River Cafe
Farewell Robert Le Pirate
The Murphy's and the French Riviera
Drapers' Almshouse Outing to Winchester 2009
Japan - Imabari and the Kurushima Strait
Japan - Early Morning Chimes
Hymn to Dear Japan March 2011
One of Hutton's Glass Screen Angels in Hampshire
The Great Churches of the City of London
John O'Donohue at Glenshal Abbey
Elmore Abbey
Stockbridge Christmas Evening 2016

A Long Indian Summer - by Rolls Across India 

Office Life 1967 - 2006 

Thomas Miller 1967-2006

My City Offices 1967 - 2006
Commuting in the 1970s

My Travelling Life

Business memories of China 1978

Seawise University (1972)

Atlantic Empress / Aegean Captain (1979) 

Cambridgeshire and a Mysterious Case of Sulphur Corrosion

Customs Penalties and Other Scams in Shipping

Business Memories of Japan

Japan - Imabari and the Kurushima Strait

India - Memories of the Taj

TIM and ITIC

Favourite Cafes - Under the Office
Salary and Pay 1967 - 2015

Herry's Trinity House Retirement 2006
Herry's Tokyo Retirement 2006
Herry's Beijing Retirement 2006
Herry's Office Retirement 2006

Richard Shaw 1940 - 2013
S Venkiteswaran 1941 - 2013

Joanne Louise Taylor (Jo Johns) 1939 - 2014

Bill Birch Reynardson 1923 - 2017

UK Club's 125th Anniversary 1994

UK Club's 150th Anniversary Dinner 

Thomas Miller Carol Service 2008
Thomas Miller Carol Service 2009
Thomas Miller Carol Service 2010
Thomas Miller Carol Service 2011
Thomas Miller Carol Service 2013
Thomas Miller Carol Service 2018 and the City

Lindsay East - 50 Years in Shipping Law

John Jillings 1941-2021

Francis Frost 1945 - 2022

Coventry

These entries can also be found under Sir Alfred Herbert

The Bombing of Coventry in November 1940

The Rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral
Sir Alfred Herbert and Town Thorns Residential School, Easenhall
Sir Alfred Herbert and the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital
Sir Alfred Herbert's Memorial Service in Coventry Cathedral 1957
Sir Alfred Herbert and St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry Reopening 2008
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
Favourite Places - Coventry Cathedral
Coventry's Awe-Inspiring Cathedral
Coventry's Awe-Inspiring Cathedral II
Coventry Cathedral - the Sutherland Tapestry
Rediscovering Coventry's Medieval Stained Glass
Coventry Cathedral Carol Concert 2013
Coventry Cathedral Golden Jubilee
Sir Alfred Herbert's Induction into Coventry's Walk of Fame 2017

Gardens and Flowers

Favourite Gardens - The Buildings in Autumn 
Favourite Gardens - The Buildings, Broughton
Favourite Gardens - The Buildings August 2018
Favourite Gardens - the last of The Buildings, October 2018
Favourite Gardens - the Laskett Gardens
Favourite Gardens - Terstan
Favourite Gardens - Ashtall Manor
Favourite Gardens - Bere Mill in Spring
Favourite Gardens - Adwell
Favourite Gardens - Hinton Ampner
Favourite Gardens - Stockbridge Town Gardens
Favourite Gardens - Wherwell Village Gardens
Favourite Gardens - Bramdean House
Favourite Gardens - Dean House
Favourite Gardens - A Secret Garden
Favourite Gardens - West Green
Favourite Gardens - Mottisfont Abbey
Favourite Gardens - Rotherfield Park

Favourite Gardens - Little Court, Crawley

Favourite Gardens - Redenham Park

Favourite Gardens - Old Bladbean Stud Garden Sept 2020
NGS Evening at Hazelby House June 2019
Favourite Garden Catalogues - Bob Brown 2020

Favourite Gardens - Houghton Lodge 2022

on form at Ashtall Manor
The Manor at Upton Grey
Heale House Garden
Adwell Garden Fair
The National Gardens Scheme
Glorious Gardens in the National Gardens Scheme
Stockbridge Gardens Open for the NGS 2019

Stockbridge Gardens Open for the Church 2020
The Secret Gardens of Spitalfields
Autumn Colours in Kyoto
Autumn Beeches
Summertime

The Orangery Garden 1998 - 2012
The Orangery in Winter
Snow in April

The History of Battersea and Wandsworth Common
Favourite Views - Koko at The Orangery
Favourite Views - Fields of Barley
The Therapeutic Power Of Gardens - Oliver Sacks

The Little Yellow Book on Gardens and Health 2020

What Makes a Happy Home?
Old Swan House Garden 2012
Making the Garden at Old Swan House
Old Swan House Gardens Open for the NGS 2015
Old Swan House Garden Video in June 2014
Old Swan House Garden in Summer and Autumn
Old Swan House Garden in June 2014
Old Swan House Garden in July 2015
Old Swan House Garden in August 2016
Old Swan House Garden in September 2016
Old Swan House Garden Late 2016
Old Swan House Garden Video April 2018
Old Swan House Garden in June 2018
Old Swan House Garden in July 2018
Old Swan House Garden in August 2018
Old Swan House Garden in March 2019
Old Swan House Garden in April 2019
Old Swan House Garden Changes in 2019
Old Swan House Garden Open for the NGS June 2019
Old Swan House Garden in Spring 2020

Old Swan House Garden in June 2020

The Story of the Raphael Seat
Memorial Trees and Roses at Old Swan House

Old Swan House Garden in August 2020

Old Swan House Winter Jobs 2021

A Change of Style at Old Swan House April 2021

Old Swan House Garden in May 2021

Old Swan House Garden in June 2021 

Old Swan House Garden in July 2021

Alan Titchmarsh at Old Swan House July 2021

Old Swan House Garden in August 2021

The Making of the 'Florentine' Garden 2021

Lighting the Garden at Old Swan House
Chelsea Flower Show 2007
Chelsea Flower Show 2008
Chelsea Flower Show 2010
Chelsea Flower Show 2011
Chelsea Flower Show 2012
Chelsea Flower Show 2013
Chelsea Flower Show 2014
Chelsea Flower Show 2016
Chelsea Flower Show 2018
Chatsworth Flower Show 2017

Hampton Court Flower Show 2018

Chelsea Flower Show 2019

Hardy's Cottage Plants Chelsea Display May 2021

Chelsea Flower Show 2021

Chelsea Flower Show 2022
Garden Design - Vaux le Vicomte
Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2013
Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2015
Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2017
Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2018

Mottisfont Rose Garden June 2022
Hilliers Evening Tour for the NGS June 2018

Cascades Flower Arrangement Exhibition in Winchester Cathedral 2015
Winchester Flower Festival 2018

Winchester Cathedral Flower Festival 2021

Paintings and Photographs

Art and What it Means to Me

Favourite Galleries - MOMA
Favourite Galleries - National Portrait Gallery
Favourite Paintings - Ayako by Theo Ramos
Favourite Paintings - Hilma af Klint
Favourite Paintings - Remedios Varo
Favourite Paintings - The Parisian Apartment
Favourite Paintings - Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Favourite Paintings - Peter Breughel the Elder - Nederlandisch Proverbs
Favourite Museums - Miho Museum

Favourite Photographers

St Laurent and Pierre Berge Collection
Saatchi Gallery - New Art from India
Saatchi Gallery - New Art from China
Saatchi Gallery - New Art from the Middle East
Emily Patrick Exhibition in Spitalfields 2008
Anish Kapoor's Exhibition
Anish Kapoor in Kensington Gardens 2010
Horst at the V&A - Photographer of Style
Van Gogh at the Royal Academy 2010
An Inland Voyage at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
Ibrahim El-Salahi at the Tate Modern
Gaugin at the Tate Modern
Francis Bacon Exhibition at the Tate
The Tate Modern's 10th Anniversary
Picasso Exhibition at the National Gallery
Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy 2009
Art Gallery of New South Wales - Frieda Kahlo
Lines of Thought - Isabel Seligman

Lucie Winterson's Exhibition 2010

Favourite Videos - The Dark Side of the Lens 
The Garden Gallery Exhibition at the Grange
Turner - Painting With Light

How to Draw
Emily Patrick and Patience of Ordinary Things

The Lasting Legacy of Ovid
Titian at the National Gallery - Love, Desire, Death

The Mystery of the Plaque and the Severed Head

Adam Roud - Sculptor

An Astonishing Collection of Clocks by John Taylor 2021

Europa and Zeus at Old Swan House

Energy

How to Become a Petrol-Saving Bore
How to be a Bore About Almost Anything

How Should We Price Electricity?

What is the Price of Electricity? 

Going Solar March 2022 

Food and Wine

Favourite Restaurants - the River Cafe
Wine Writings
The Joy of Breakfast
Favourite Recipes - Dark Chunky Marmalade 
Dinner for One

Favourite Blogs

Favourite Blogs - Spitalfields Life