Category: CULTURE & LIFESTYLE

Major supermarkets are deploying planogram software to maximize their customer’s purchasing response to placement of HFSS foods.

How can we use less water? We have to plan seriously in order not to run out by recycling as we have enough problems with sewage in our rivers.

Charlotte undertakes family research at the National Archives in Kew. She gets her hands dirty unfurling parchment scrolls from the 16th century.

Mike Phillips takes us to some of the highlights of Holland, including Delft and The Hague. As he says: there’s more to come.

Mike and a Dutch friend attend an André Rieu concert in the Netherlands and do some sight seeing. Three countries in a day.

Philippe Bassett reflects on his roots in Alsace, which has endured invasion and repression, and compares it with the experience of Ukraine.

Charlotte Lebon recounts her recent visit to the RHS Garden Show at Hampton Court Palace. She found plenty of plants, but not one cup of tea.

Charlotte delights in the multicultural World in a Tent festival in Ashford and bemoans the benighted attitude of the Borough Council towards such events.

Was Manilla empty last Wednesday evening, 29 June? Judging by the number of Filipinas and Filipinos who gathered at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre it could well be so! The reason for such a turn-out? The penultimate concert by Ms Lea Salonga of her recent tour of the United Kingdom. Dream again Under the title “Dream Again” […]

Juliet Blackburn reviews Philip Lymbery’s 2018 book detailing the threat to the earth’s wildlife posed by our systems of intensive farming.