A town the colour of sunlit sandstone and ironstone

The Sussex town of Midhurst features in at least three novels by H. G. Wells.

Remembrance of people past

Recalling those who are no longer with us.

Seashells on the shore of memory

“The places we have known do not belong only to the world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. They were only a thin slice in between contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years.”

Confessions of an English apple scrumper

Among the “100 things we didn’t know last year” was the fact that the peculiarly English word “scrumpy” originally meant small and shrivelled. It is also a dialect word for a small apple.