As cheerful as a leper bell. Simon Raven on Gore Vidal
Repose ‘comes easy in a gloomy place’. Joseph Mitchell (1908-96)
The ideal restaurant is one where I walk in and the food is already on the table.
The waiter says, ‘I knew you were coming’ – he
Pursuits
WELSH WONDERS On a recent cold and blowy afternoon, I spent a few hours in a series of greenhouses, sniffing exotic scents and marvelling at the sheer abundance of flowering bulbous plants. I was just a mile from the National Botanic Garden of Wales