Welcome back to my web site or welcome if you’ve not been here before! I recently took lovely Jan to one of the Grumpy Mole restaurants (http://www.thegrumpymole.co.uk/) near us. As usual, we had a really nice meal, in my case helped down with a glass of good old London Pride. I noticed on a wall of […]
Bit of a cheek, you may say, but Uber is doing a great job for Londoners. They admit to getting things wrong and are offering talks with TfL. Please join me in helping to save this brilliant application of internet technology. Uber cabs are the safest taxi firm I know. If you agree please go […]
Last Saturday I had the pleasure of doing another signing at one of my favourite stores: WH Smith’s in Sutton High Street in Surrey. I always feel welcomed there by Simon Bruckland, the manager, and by his friendly, helpful staff who are getting to know me now. I was signing copies of my latest novel, […]
It hardly seems over a week ago now that I gave a talk about my writing to the Chipstead PROBUS Club. What a great bunch of guys! They meet at none other than Chipstead Golf Club which, as many of you know, is where our Rotary Club, Sutton Nonsuch, also meets. In fact it was one […]
Originally posted on Animals Matter to God:
N.B. The following text in this blog-post Goldfinch: Symbol for Resurrection is Copyright © 2012 Philip Johnson. GOLDFINCH: SYMBOL FOR RESURRECTION In his original study of the Goldfinch in European art, the ornithologist Herbert Friedmann (1946:7-9) wrote that this bird has several symbolic meanings ascribed to it. The four principal symbolic…
