“In East Sussex, let us say, an old farm sleeps in sun-dapple, its oast-house with its cowls echoing the distant steeple of… — G.M.W. Wemyss Birds Copy Share Image
“Arcady, like Death its denizen with us, is all around us, if we – stalled beasts who want to be set forth… — G.M.W. Wemyss Country life Copy Share Image
“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and… — G.M.W. Wemyss Angling Copy Share Image
“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel… — G.M.W. Wemyss D day Copy Share Image
“The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by… — G.M.W. Wemyss Automobile industry Copy Share Image
“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to… — G.M.W. Wemyss Conservatism Copy Share Image
“… the countryside and the village are symbols of stability and security, of order. Yet they are also, as I have noted,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Arcadia Copy Share Image
“When does the year begin? Well: that rather depends: on who you are, and where. The Church kalendar – like the academic,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Country life Copy Share Image
“Note, please, that I condemn only junk science (as does Mr Delingpole): this is in fact a measure of my, and his,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Agw Copy Share Image
“The Hitler War was my grandfather’s war; my father’s war – his and Uncle George’s – was Korea, which may have been… — G.M.W. Wemyss Korean war Copy Share Image
“Or awa’ upon Islay, in January, the wind was honed to a cutting edge across the queer flatness of Loch Gorm and… — G.M.W. Wemyss Birds Copy Share Image
“We live, all of us, in sprung rhythm. Even in cities, folk stir without knowing it to the surge in the blood… — G.M.W. Wemyss Authors Copy Share Image
“Loth as one is to agree with CP Snow about almost anything, there are two cultures; and this is rather a problem.… — G.M.W. Wemyss Agw Copy Share Image
“The late American golfing coach and writer, Harvey Penick, held that any who played golf was his friend – in the politer… — G.M.W. Wemyss Angling Copy Share Image
“Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological… — G.M.W. Wemyss Economics Copy Share Image
“I saw a pair of great tits some days ago. (Massingham Major, you are a dirty-minded boy, and if you snigger again,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Birds Copy Share Image
“For the author as for God, standing outwith his creation, all times are one; all times are now. In mine own country,… — G.M.W. Wemyss Birds Copy Share Image
“We move, all of us, in sprung rhythm: for our world – whether we conceive it as broad or as cosy –… — G.M.W. Wemyss Country life Copy Share Image
