This article is about the Stourbridge Fair at the Leper Chapel. It was held here on the outskirts of Cambridge, and was at one time the biggest in England and some say, in Europe. Here is the Mayor of Cambridge, Councillor George Pippas, together with two proctors of the University of Cambridge. One of the … Read more
The Isle Of May is a little sliver of an island, just one mile (one and a half kilometres) long, located in the mouth of the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, Scotland. Because of the seabirds that nest there, the island is designated a European Special Protection Area. It may seem obvious, but it is … Read more
Poetic Timing Three days after Pablo Neruda was hospitalized with cancer in his native country of Chile in the autumn of 1973 after having been very ill for some weeks before, he died of heart failure on September 23rd at the age of 69. However, it wasn’t in just any month that Neruda’s final days … Read more