Afternoon at Cliveden – 20 April 2015
The whole of the Easter break had come and so nearly gone without any one of us spending so much as an hour at Cliveden. Clearly this needed to be put right.
Tagged: tradition
Singing Evensong at St George’s Windsor – 14 May 2014
Taplow Youth Choir – of which I am a member – tonight sang choral evensong at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. A quality performance, it delighted one tourist.
Christmas Cake Making – 10 November 2013
Christmas is just around the corner, so the seasonal making and baking has begun at Burdett Towers. In this first post counting down to the big day, I publish my father’s traditional Christmas Cake...
A Quiet Afternoon at Carters Steam Fair – 12 May 2013
Once again, Carters Steam Fair rolled into Maidenhead on Monday for its annual weekend at home. Yet, unlike previous years, when the site has been bustling with thousands of people, today’s rain seemed to be keeping most away. Not me, though – this post contains photographs taken during a brief interlude to my revision.
Advent Begins: Countdown to Christmas – 1 December 2012
Scroll down or click here for a video of the unwrapping of our Advent candle. Around the country, delicate perforated cardboard doors have been torn back, neat aluminium foil has been sharply poked, and...
Christmas Day – 25 December 2011
Christmas Day for me has remained relatively unchanged since I was born, though one more obvious difference between the Christmases of old and those of more recent years is our greater reluctance to wake...
Pancake Day Fun – 8 March 2011
It’s Shrove Tuesday today and, to march the occasion, here at Burdett Towers we’ve been having our annual dose of pancake fun. (By the way, you can click here to see what we got...
