Life
Wild life
A leopard has been on the rampage night after night. We know her because she often lurks in the woods…
There will be spuds
Exmouth Market is a small collection of paved streets near the Farringdon Travelodge, which specialises in monomaniacal restaurants and has…
In the Ritz
The Ritz Hotel is a cake on Piccadilly made of stone; inside this cake, Lady Thatcher died. Some think it…
Wild life
Colobus monkeys in the forest were throat singing like Tibetan monks. Mist rose from the Kericho tea gardens above us…
The dark heart of the Café Royal
The Ten Room is the -restaurant inside the new Café Royal Hotel, which occupies the curve of Regent Street from…
Loo role
I love metaphor, and now metaphor has led me to a toilet near Goodge Street, in that thankless patch of…
Wild life
Rift Valley ‘We’re on the frontline,’ I said. ‘And however many guns we had, it wouldn’t be enough against the…
Marching out of Balthazar
Balthazar is a golden cave in Covent Garden, in the old Theatre (Luvvie) Museum, home to dead pantomime horses and…
Wild life
Rift Valley I am training for a half-marathon on the slopes of Mount Kenya in June and I must prepare…
Wild life
Rift Valley ‘I’ve got a brilliant idea,’ said Jools on the phone, his voice characteristically rising like a commentator on…
Christmas crossword winners
The first prize of £100, three prizes of £25 and six further prizes of the Chambers Crossword Dictionary are awarded…
Christmas crossword winners
The first prize of £100, three prizes of £25 and six further prizes of the Chambers Crossword Dictionary are awarded…
The answers
Weird world1 Mark Rothko’s2 George Washington3 Nadine Dorries4 The Duchess of Cornwall5 Sakhalin6 The 158th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race7…
The answers
Weird world1 Mark Rothko’s2 George Washington3 Nadine Dorries4 The Duchess of Cornwall5 Sakhalin6 The 158th Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race7…
Wild life
Gilgil, Kenya Pembroke House, our children’s school, is a little slice of England set in Kenya’s Rift Valley. In the…
Wild life
Northern Kenya If I go out in darkness I dread neither the leopard nor the lion but I recoil from…
Wild life
Mogadishu I return to Mogadishu to find it’s calm – only a few assassinations, hit-and-run attacks, IEDs or suicide bombs…
Wild life
He was under a tiny patch of shade under a tree in one of the earth’s remotest spots. At Nadapal,…
Wild life
Kigali Eighteen years after Rwanda’s bloodbath I disembarked from my flight and was surprised to see that mortar craters no…
Wild life
Kenya coast A loud crash woke us in the middle of our first night at the beach house. ‘Robbers must…
Wild life
Laikipia My new pride and joy is a pedigree Boran bull named Woragus 317. We know him as Ollie. Sired…
Wild life
Juba After an all-night rainstorm in Juba I woke to see the mosquito that bit me in the dark. Now,…
Wild life
Laikipia, Kenya Darkness was closing in and one of the sheep was lost. A search party formed. On my Kenya…
Wild life
I looked at the bomb craters and their shrapnel blast patterns. Dozens of metres away, rocks and tree trunks were…
Wild life
Kenya At Nairobi’s Muthaiga Club this week I bumped into Stanley Johnson, author of the superb memoir Stanley, I Presume…
