GEOFF NICHOLSON: THE LONG LOST WALKER

  When I lived in California, as I did until comparatively recently, people often said to  me, ‘Oh but you’re English, don’t you miss the se...

I went for a walk, to the end of Southend pier.     It’s one and a third miles apparently, and they count you in, just so you know where yo...

And speaking of melancholy, there was a moment (rather a long time ago now) when I considered writing a book to be titled “The Seaside In W...