MARCH may have gone out like a lamb, but April has brought back winter with a vengeance. As I write, a fierce snowstorm rages round the cottage.

YOU don't get much for a £10 note these days, well, certainly not in London.

A RECENT letter from a friend complained that he was dispirited by that fact that our politically-correct society seemed to be heading towards complete madness.

HARDLY a day passes without more sad news from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan – conflicts that most people believe we should never have become involved in.

ONE picture in our newspapers recently did indeed speak the proverbial thousand words: a photograph taken in the Antarctic of a dead whale and its calf being dragged into the bowels of a Japanese processing vessel.