W-wa Jeziorki

When my father landed in Warsaw with Moni, she told me about that moment at security at Heathrow when they discovered his penknife among his...

My brother's imagined lyrics from Roxy Music's Editions of You (from the band's second album For Your Pleasure ) set us both th...

One of my favourite haunts in West London is the stretch of the Thames between Hammersmith and Chiswick. I'd spend many a summer evening...

A huge, huge thanks to Janusz for taking the trouble to find out more about my family, from the side of my father's mother, Stefania Dem...

My father's mother, Stefania Dembińska née Witkowska, came from Mogielnica, a small town 70km south-west from Warsaw. She met my grandf...

Back again, back to the building in which lived my father before the war and during the occupation. And the building in which General Chruśc...

Monday 31 July, the day before the big commemoration, and there's much to do. After a 6am wake-up call, my father and I travel by Metro ...

My father flew into Warsaw on Thursday night, ahead of him a week spent commemorating the Warsaw Uprising and seeing a bit of Poland. After ...