IT'S not often that life presents you with that metaphorical bowl of cherries, but the other day I was asked to chair a panel discussion on 'Arts, Culture and Creativity'.
IF you pass Compton Dundon's splendidly refurbished Castlebrook Inn and look west, you can't miss the mound of Dundon Beacon bulging up from the earth.
I once complimented one of the impressive House of Commons doorkeepers on the remarkable way that the Chamber is run. "Well," he said, "we've had 750 years to practise getting it right."