A Wandering Eye, With Min Hogg in Gran Canaria, by Miguel Flores-Vianna
I met Min at my friends Charlotte and Alex de Carcaci, in their old Cheyne Row house, a freezing evening in February of 2012. Having recently moved to England I had been dying to meet the... 
the bobt: a trip to the archives
To mark April's Renaissance, the bibleofbritishtaste presents new stories and themes. Some are being commissioned from generous and talented friends. But these are not them. Today's story is an amuse gueule from its archives of thousands...
I am a painter and I paint every day: Romi Behrens at Prussia Cove
Romi Behrens, b.1939, who lived at Prussia Cove in West Cornwall, belonged to no school of art and received no formal painting tuition Romi grew up, very happily, riding donkeys, in the idyllic surroundings of...
Trereife House in West Cornwall, Lost Land of Lyonesse.
They rebuilt the 'new' house at Trereife in 1710, on and around the older one, as has so often been the case. There's a back drive with high stone gate posts and rhododendrons and this front...
In the North Kent Downs: the West Street Tickham’s last meet & Twentieth Century Castles.
Hunt supporters don't carry umbrellas. On March 16th under lead-grey skies and needle-sharp rain the West Street Tickham hunt met for the last time on the gravel in front of Doddington Place in Kent. Lachrymal weather...
Dark Satanic Mills.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For my taste, these twin cranes or derricks at Battersea Power Station are the only public art worth pausing for from here to Tate Modern. But they won't...
What to do in Walton-on-the-Naze in Winter.
Have you ever been to Walton on the Naze? Like its sister resort of Clacton on Sea it has a long (790 metre) pier with fairground amusements and fishermen casting lines fruitlessly into the grey-green swell....
Beautiful Britain ? Roche Rock.
Hundreds of picture have been taken of Roche Rock looking sublime and Romantic, like this. The granite chapel on the outcrop is roofless now, reached by a vertical iron ladder embedded in the side of...
At Boleigh Farm.
Deryck and David Eddy and their mother Marion live at Boleigh Farm, where they have been looking after the dairy herd since they were schoolboys. A little way along the road is a stone...
The National Collection of dahlias.
Winter is icumen in fast, now, over the dahlia meadow at Varfell Farm, where they keep the national collection, blackening the edges of leaves and petals. Over 275 miles off from London, it is a comparatively...
Summer Season interval at Grange Park Opera.
Far, far, far more beautiful than Glyndebourne and so much nicer than Garsington, with patron Lord Ashburton and his impresario Wasfi Kani on stage before curtain up, fundraising for the next season. No tax payers money...
A Farewell to Hanham Court.
Julian and Isabel Bannerman, Ismay, Rex and Bertie don’t live at Hanham Court any more. When they gave their farewell party last summer the gardens for which they and Hanham have become justly famous were at...
