I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve driven the stretch of the A280 known as ‘The Long Furlong’. The single carriageway road cuts through a beautiful valley and is the most direct route connecting the A24 London to Worthing road with routes to the coast and the A27. Read More
Tag: mystery
The Devil’s Punchbowl
I was in Conan Doyle country today: the gorgeous Surrey heathland of Hindhead Commons and the intriguingly-monickered Devil’s Punchbowl. I arrived mid-morning and it was already busy with the lockdown-induced stir-crazy picnic crowd – indeed, they were already sprawled out on the grass scoffing pork pies (not that there’s anything Read More
The Mousetrap
There really is no better way to start a run of five plays in five weeks than the quintessential murder mystery, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. You may (or may not) know that, at the end of each performance, the audience takes an oath not to reveal ‘whodunnit’. I have seen the Read More