Quirky Bath: a poem about a horse that died on one of Bath’s steepest roads is marked with a horse trough – the road is part of the Roman Fosse Way that linked the hot springs to Exeter and Lincoln
The short cut on foot from Bear Flat to Bath City Centre is down the incredibly steep hill known as…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE: ‘Some of my best friends are black’ and the discussion around Black Lives Matter
After I posted my take on the overthrow of Edward Colston’s statue, several people contacted me – but not in…
AGENDA WEST BUSINESS NEWS: Urgent industry-wide warning – beware the dodgy debt collectors who only want more of your money for doing nothing – too many firms have fallen for it this year
The scenario seems to make sense. A client of yours went bust owing £10,000 a few months ago leaving you…
BATH VOICE NEWS: An area seen as a green lung in Lyncombe is now being managed and improved by a group of Friends
The pasture land is cress-crossed by public footpaths Lyncombe Hill Fields straddles the slopes below Beechen Cliff School and above…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Theatre Review: Pinter’s Betrayal is a neatly constructed drama of tangled relationships (all based on his affair with Joan Bakewell) and is boozy and blokish – and is a welcome return of live theatre in Bath
Blokish and boozy, Harold Pinter’s 1978 story of tangled relationships seems at once dated and yet convincing in the selfishness…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE Theatre Preview: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal kicks off the Welcome Back Season with a story of relationships and adultery
Casting has been announced for the first two plays in the Theatre Royal Bath’s Welcome Back Season this Autumn. Two…
RAPSCALLION MAGAZINE BOOK REVIEW: looking back at an end of Empire life through the eyes of lawyer Filth (failed in London try Hong Kong)
He was spectacularly clean, runs the opening line in Jane Gardam’s novel – sharply in contrast with Edward Feather’s nickname…
CHILDREN’S THEATRE MAGAZINE Film review: post war Paris is the backdrop to Le Ballon Rouge
When I first saw the film The Red Balloon or Le Ballon Rouge at the cinema in the early 1960s I was blown away…
AGENDA WEST BUSINESS NEWS: Covid 19 causes more printers to call in the administrators, plus anger at Helloprint for taking FIVE YEARS to pay suppliers instead of 30 days
Incompetent management, bad debts or a lost client can all sink a business, but there’s a new one that Ian…
Quirky Bath: pigs, chickens, goats and a fabulous view of the city – Bath City Farm marks 25 years as a community resource when it began as a dream in the 1980s
One of Bath’s best kept secrets is high up on a hill overlooking the city where pigs and chickens scratch…