Review: The Christmas Truce – 3 January 2015
Visiting Stratford to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of new play ‘The Christmas Truce’, I was delighted to find it intelligent and poignant, and yet highly accessible.
Christmas 2014 / Family / Reviews / Theatre / Today / World War I
Visiting Stratford to see the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of new play ‘The Christmas Truce’, I was delighted to find it intelligent and poignant, and yet highly accessible.
Exams / Family / Maidenhead / Photos / Summer 2014 / Today
A birthday in late-April is no time to hold a celebration (examinations begin in the early weeks of May), but two months on, my late eighteenth birthday party was blessed with wonderful weather.
Five years after the family hosted an evening boat party to mark Mum’s 50th and Harriet’s 18th, I picked this Sunday afternoon to hold my very own. With me engrossed in revision, Dad had done the vast majority of the organising, although I came up with the finer details: deciding on the menu, compiling the playlist, and suggesting a ‘Henley’ dress code.
Whenever there’s a big news story, everyone flocks like vultures to somehow be a part of it. Witness, in the aftermath of Mandela’s death (yes, that again…), every political leader from Cameron to Mike...
Family / Summer 2013 / Today
I wrote on the last day of last month about the greatness of the preceding weeks. Today being 30 September, it’s perhaps apt to reflect on this month. In essence, September’s been an enormous contrast...
Duke of Edinburgh / Explorers / Photos / Summer 2013 / Today
‘All good things must come to an end.’ And, thus, it is only right and fair that this extraordinarily good summer has drawn to a close. Today, on this final day of August, I’m...
Family / London 2012 / Photos / Summer 2012 / Today
Making hay of the good weather, the four of us (my brother Matthew is currently away in France with the Taize community) thought we’d take an afternoon’s bike ride to Windsor. We decided to...
This is the first look at the front cover of the next Burdett Family Calendar, produced annually for the last seven or eight years. Featuring the very best photographs from Burdett cameras in 2011,...
Today, the sale of my maternal grandparents’ house was completed, after my dad received a call to say that the money had gone through. He walked to the house – the new owners were already inside – presented them with the key, and said “It’s all yours.”
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