Watford Observer | Columnists

How to start a fire in snow is a mystery

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:45:05 +0000

Nobody is indifferent to snow. It matters to us in a deep-down, visceral sort of way. When you wake up and see snow, you react.

Time to form Friends of the Sun Printers/Engraving Clock Tower?

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000

IT IS nice to note that one of the last remnants of “the splendour that was Cassiobury”, namely Little Cassiobury, close to the much enlarged former Watford Technical College, appears to have a future.

LOOK TO THE FUTURE

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:02:25 +0000

A good time for gardeners to stay indoors and keep warm whilst doing some serious planning for the coming summer.

Along the Texas Panhandle, teenage memories rekindled

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:30:00 +0000

IT is popularly known as The Day The Music Died: February 3 1959 and I can remember it as if it were yesterday. As a teenager, I felt we had lost something unique with the passing of Buddy Holly, by far he most innovative of all the first generation rockers.

A Rye comment on the past

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:39:43 +0000

It's so refreshing to find a town that reminds you of the best things about your childhood...

FERNS - AN ATTRACTIVE SOLUTION FOR A PROBLEM AREA

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:02:17 +0000

Ferns have been with us for a long, long time and man's fascination with them is nothing new.

Declining heritage a bitter pillbox to take

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:48:04 +0000

When we think of historic buildings, we British tend to go long. Because we’ve got the benefit of many centuries worth of architecture, we reckon that Hampton Court Palace, The Globe Theatre and Stonehenge are historic. Unless it was visited by the original Queen Elizabeth, it just doesn’t seem very old.

The French motorways are something else

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:30:00 +0000

I WAS a little anxious. We had loaded up the car and the roof-pod with items and added our usual shopping, such as bulk crumpets, baked beans, teabags etc. We do that every Christmas and the Spring holiday when we return for a visit to the UK.

A CLIMBER FOR ALL SEASONS

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:41:34 +0000

Climbers are amongst the most versatile and valuable of garden plants and high on the list of the best of these are clematis.