Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Schubert’s diary fragment

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The great Austrian composer Franz Schubert was born 220 years ago today. His life was tragically short - he died aged only 31 - and yet he m...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Canada for the British

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Today marks the double centenary of the birth of Jeffrey Amherst, a British soldier with an illustrious career. His crowning achievement was...
Friday, January 27, 2017

You look like terrorists

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Forty years ago today, two Chilean friends, Christian and Nene, and myself were minding our own business in the Brazilian city of Curitiba w...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

The 1st Earl of Avon

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Anthony Eden 1st Earl of Avon, who stood firm with Churchill against appeasement of Hitler and remained the UK’s foreign secretary throughou...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

The sweetest fish ever eaten

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‘Fried lake trout for breakfast were positively the sweetest fish ever eaten. All the trout on stringers were dead. Have never yet found a w...
Saturday, January 7, 2017

Adieu to my youth

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‘Pretty cold this morning but we must get the carriage repaired, which broke down last night about 12 oclock. Managed to get to the polling ...
Monday, January 2, 2017

My knees felt like macaroni

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‘Sat around again and filmed the ending of  Juliet , where I had to execute sixteen  fouettés  six times from different angles - that makes ...

Christian Daniel Rauch

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Today marks the 240th anniversary of the birth of Christian Daniel Rauch, the most important German sculptor of the 19th century, and yet ba...