CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Thursday's Guardian Country Diary concerns the wonderful South Tynedale Railway at Alston in Cumbria, a narrow gauge line that epitomis...

The millennium spawned all sorts of arts projects, many of them grandiose, but these ceramics entitled Field of Flower are amongst my favour...

Earlier this week we found this menacing-looking wasp high up in the Pennine moorlands near Alston in Cumbria. I wasn't too certain...

There's been something of a roe deer population explosion up here in the North East in recent years, so it's not that unusual to ...

I can’t let the weekend slip past without extolling the virtues of the wonderful South Tynedale Railway, which we visited yesterday morning....