Evacuee Story Lines #3 Evelyn Waugh

3 years ago

I did, in the first weeks of the war, before I got my commission, suffer severely from 'evacuees'.- Evelyn Waugh in…

Hemlock and After and Angus Wilson

3 years ago

‘Oh, I know all about goats,’ Sonia was saying. ‘People give them the same recommendation as the billeting officers did…

Ashokan Stroll

3 years ago

A short drive to the Catskills and a Saturday stroll along the Ashokan Reservoir Promenade. Wildflowers growing in the cracks…

The Happiest Day

3 years ago

They say the day you get a boat is the happiest day of your life. That is, until the day…

Evacuee Story Lines #2 C. S. Lewis

3 years ago

"What are you doing in the wardrobe?" "Narnia business" C.S."Jack" Lewis spent childhood years in a house in Belfast where…

Evacuee Story Lines #1 Nina Bawden

3 years ago

All our stories begin before we are born. Not Just the blue eyes or flat feet we inherit, but the…

The Rock Swop

3 years ago

Took a stroll around the perimeter and something colorful caught my eye. There - discretely propped against a generator close…

Large Dog Eats Anything Loves Children

3 years ago

It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…

Ice

3 years ago

I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…

War Souvenir

4 years ago

My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…