Little blogging until next week as I’m visiting my sister in Cumbria today before going to the cricket at Old Trafford on Saturday. But here’s a photograph of the lower reaches of the Yarrow Valley, Selkirkshire:
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‘Another pint of bitter, love, when you’re ready.’ To those of a certain age the request slips off the tongue like the opening line of a sonnet. A pint of bitter is as English as the first cuckoo of spring or the last rose of summer. It brings to mind a pub, the people in
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