Vic Keegan

This England. Banana trees in the garden today

Stratford (upon Avon) looks great after its recent(ish) makeover. Shame about the nation-wide drop in cultural tourism.

Orchids on the march

Garden Museum Shed
Everyone needs a garden shed
The worries of the world to shed.
Becalmed among those tools and seeds
The perfect place that often seeds
Thoughts of calm from which to hide
From the growing wilderness outside.
No wars are fought in a garden shed
Just tomorrow's seeds ready to spread

Garden Museum Shed
Everyone needs a garden shed
The worries of the world to shed.
Becalmed among those tools and seeds
The perfect place that often seeds
Thoughts of calm from which to hide
From the growing wilderness outside.
No wars are fought in a garden shed
Just tomorrow's seeds ready to spread

The summer double edition of Prospect hits the streets (and the internet) today. Led off by a magisterial read by @OliverBullough on why our water companies are in the miserable mess they’re in

I see BlueSky now has over 32 million users. I am keen to use it more regularly but it needs a bigger user base

Statue of Henry Purcell, still one of Britain’s greatest composers, at Christchurch Gardens Victoria Street

Happy Christmas

Tree in Eden (painted poem in acrylics) Tree I planted thee from seed, remember In 1973 I think it was. In September Now you, of course, will know if this is bunk A history book you carry in your trunk Chronicling years and weather conditio...

Buds of Spring - a painted poem flic.kr/p/Lytzi8

The former Almonry opposite Westminster Abbey where William Caxton had his printing press. When it was a hotel it hosted a statue of Caxton. There is plenty of space to put a new statue up (unless the original on can be found)

In

Happy Christmas

Why do we sleep-walk to oblivion
From war in Ukraine to the Palestinian.
We ignore the lesson of 1914
Which led to a conflict unforeseen
We are but one bit among trillions of galaxies
Gifted with a thin layer of air
What else will save the human race
But the noble art of losing face

Shortversion

Observer posts £3m profit ahead of potential sale to loss-making start-up Sunday title outstrips forecasts despite claims it must be offloaded to protect the Guardian

Telegraph reports that the Observer made £3.4m last year, according to internal figures. An interesting new fact www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Everyone needs a garden shed
The worries of the world to shed.
Becalmed among those tools and seeds
The perfect place that often seeds

Thoughts of calm from which to hide
From the growing wilderness outside.

No wars are fought in a garden shed
Just tomorrow's seeds ready to spread.