BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog

This curious building is a raised granary, or 'hórreo', in the northern Spanish town of Avilés, which we recently...

A SUMMERTIME ODE At this time of year, I yearn to forage For mint and thyme and a sprig of borage, The latter required if your summert...

Farewell Tom Lehrer (1928-2025) brilliant parodist and consummate performer of his own sharp, smart, witty – often wicked – songs like '...

One hundred and sixty-three years ago, today, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and an Oxford colleague, the Reverend Robinson ...

The death, today, of   author Edmund White, aged 85, weirdly happens to coincide with my reading of the final chapter of his recently publi...

Design by Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) – and famous for Where the Wild Things Are for a theatre scrim for Mozart's The Magic Flute , 1979...

  My first real outing – and with an out-door lunch – since my discharge from hospital on New Year's Eve: Espresso Eggs Benedict with...

  An astonishing, unprecedented, bravura achievement by the brilliant Chris Riddell. On 15 December 2019 – realising he was living in, as th...

I have been in love with 'Peanuts' for so many years – at least 60, possibly more – that I'm rarely stopped in my tracks by th...

  A seemingly simple but stunning artwork by Lee Everett Blair (1911-1993). A piece of concept art created for the live-action silhouetted o...