Crime Past, Crime Present, and Crime Future

4 years ago

 Many people know that the poet T. S. Eliot was very fond of cats and indeed created some wonderful cat…

The Hat on the Cat

4 years ago

Optimized for full cable reception, BlueTooth and wi-fi.  The Hat on the Cat - Inspired by all the Amazing Hats…

The Seduction of Sir Knack-a-Rib

4 years ago

OuLiPo meets Anapestic Tetrameter and the mad, bad and dangerous to know Bored Lyeron (If you feel you must read…

Daffodils Nodding in the Cheese

4 years ago

Daffodil:  good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy. - from the surrealist dictionary definition generator.  Windy today so lots of daffodils nodding…

All Our Yesterdays with the #1936Club

4 years ago

There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…

A Shadorma Chain on the Problem of Cats

4 years ago

 Shadorma - that wonderful bogus poetic form that is such fun to write - is perfect for the paean to…

Bertie Wooster v. Christopher Robin

4 years ago

P.G.Wodehouse and A.A. Milne were the same age and in 1941 they were both close to 60. As young men…

What ho! George Orwell and Cancel Culture

4 years ago

Few things in this war have been more morally disgusting than the present hunt after traitors and Quislings. At best…

The Learners’ Manifesto from Frank Smith

4 years ago

A six-point manifesto from psycholinguist Frank Smith - another of those items found in the basement. I must have prepared…

#6Degrees From the Gulf of Siam to Pianosa via Anglesey

4 years ago

 "Phosphorescence is a process in which energy absorbed by a substance is released relatively slowly in the form of light.…