I did, in the first weeks of the war, before I got my commission, suffer severely from 'evacuees'.- Evelyn Waugh in…
‘Oh, I know all about goats,’ Sonia was saying. ‘People give them the same recommendation as the billeting officers did…
A short drive to the Catskills and a Saturday stroll along the Ashokan Reservoir Promenade. Wildflowers growing in the cracks…
They say the day you get a boat is the happiest day of your life. That is, until the day…
"What are you doing in the wardrobe?" "Narnia business" C.S."Jack" Lewis spent childhood years in a house in Belfast where…
All our stories begin before we are born. Not Just the blue eyes or flat feet we inherit, but the…
Took a stroll around the perimeter and something colorful caught my eye. There - discretely propped against a generator close…
It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…
I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…
My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…