I don't like to make rash promises, but with luck this will be my last word on the subject of Covid-19. I've created a kind of Venn...

I first heard the expression food truck in Wellington, New Zealand. Ophelie, the daughter of our next door neighbours, had moved to New...

If America emerges still standing and still smiling after the combined and related horrors of Donald Trump and the Covid-19 pandemic, it...

We’re just back from Paris, a trip which marks our first substantial voyage in 16 months and our first trip to Paris in 20 months. Since...

It wouldn't be France if food didn't enter the equation somewhere. For years I've agonised over whether I'd been a total hypocrite after...

A handful of newspapers and other journals around the world are starting to pick up on a theme I tried to give voice to in my last blog...

Rant alert. Sorry, folks, but I'm well sick of people trying not to sound smug while asking me how things are in France Covid-19-wise....

Christopher Guest's wonderful faux documentary about the folk music pandemic that swept the world in the 1960s was titled A Mighty Wind....

I really don’t know where to begin with this. You are now reading from my ‘new’ web site at www.petegrose.com. At the urging of my then...

Make a note of today's date . . . 14 March 2021. It could go down in history as the day Joe Biden was at long last rumbled. Whatever...

I wouldn't take too much notice of what follows if I were you: it's the purest speculation. But, as the headline says, I can dream, can't...

A topic which should be a simple matter of counting has become a hotly debated political issue. There is even a left-right split: the...

An article in today's New York Times talks about the very little damage done by the mob that invaded the US Capitol on 6 January. All...

The Law of Unintended Consequences, otherwise known as The Law of Be Careful What You Wish For, swung lustily into action on New Year's...

As well as being New Year's Day, today is the first day of Britain's total exit from the European Union. The rant that follows first...

If you've read yesterday's blog, you can't say I don't practise what I preach: above is our family Christmas 2020 online. Top left you...

I’ve been saying to my two daughters and my granddaughter that they should all be recording their experience of the pandemic. Generations...

Australian aboriginals use song in a way that is little discussed but potent all the same. Many aboriginal tribes have a kind of witch...

The brave new post-Covid world is beginning to take shape. A couple of days ago I had an e-mail from a friend in Hobart, Tasmania...

It was Oscar Wilde who wrote to his friend Ada Leverson: 'One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell (in Dickens'...