Thank you -will do. Today not promising for weather -fingers crossed for next week.

Hello Rosemary. I’m so pleased you have been inspired to visit the Spire. It’s on Round Hill, Forest Hill/Sydenham and not hard to find. I hope you enjoy visiting it and are as lucky with the weather as I was.

Good afternoon Charles, and thank you so much for your kind comments which are very much appreciated. I don’t know the Isle of Portland well. I had a brief visit to the area last year, and I hope to return to explore further whenever I can squeeze it into my flaneusing. Thanks to you I will definitely think of Wren when I survey the landscape.

I relate to Wren in a different way from most people having for some years lived on the Isle of Portland, whence all his dazzling white limestone came and where his insatiable quarrying has left a great deal of negative space on, especially, the NE side of the island. Portland is a wild, weird and much hacked place, the very obverse of St Paul’s and countless other ceremonial buildings. But Portlanders are very proud of the association.

Best days for demonstrations are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Oh I’d like that!

Thank you Moira. I encourage you to visit the Industrial Museum to see the collection. You might even be lucky enough to bump into Gand or one of his colleagues demonstrating the printing presses.

Hello Sally, there are plenty of cafes in the square where you could reminisce in the shadow of Temple Bar! Thanks for getting in touch.