The very model of a G & S enthusiast
I was born in Norwich, but between the ages of five and eleven I lived in Coventry, about as far as you can get from the sea in this country. Not that I was aware of that at the time. I’m…
July 2018
Passing through
(for David Coomes) One morning early, before what used to be breakfast, you sigh finally, like a breeze, step out of the moral maze and into something quite new, unproduced, unscripted The pain disappears, not gradually but all at once,…
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Farewell to an old friend – David Coomes
It’s not often you find yourself in a congregation that includes top broadcasters Michael Buerk, Michael Portillo and David Starkey – as well as several others who I sort of recognised but couldn’t pin down. The occasion was the funeral…