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The London Oasis, first seen on Clerkenwell Green last summer, has been resurrected at the Chelsea Flower Show. London Oasis opened on 19th June 2006 as a temporary structure on Clerkenwell Green. Designed by architect Laurie Chetwood, the Oasis is a demonstration of sustainability and renewable energy working with architecture to provide a tranquil oasis [...]

This week’s book purchase (yes, dear reader, it never ends, there are merely lulls between one indulgence of the vice and the next) is a small Bodley Head volume that comprises part of the collected works of Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916), or “Saki” as he’s better known. I have Saki’s complete works already in a [...]