The November #6degrees is freestyle. Instead of everyone starting in the same place with the same book, each participant starts…
Looks like having government officials who are Ignorant and Stupid is nothing new. Chinese poet Su Tung-Po nailed it centuries…
November Show's over, folks. And didn't October do A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries Of migrating geese, low-floating coral…
A musical backdrop to Unreal City: the London of the Lonely Londoners When the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in…
I was pleased to be invited to contribute something to Trevor Day School's 90th Anniversary magazine. This is what I…
This is not really a book review, although I did re-read, and enjoy The Lonely Londoners as part of the…
I am always a bit astonished when I see tRump signs at people's houses. And I ask myself: "Who are…
And the #1956Club is open for business and this time I'm joining and you can too.. I'm old enough to…
As a starting point for a chain of connections #sixdegrees The Turn of the Screw has everything. Is it a…
Long before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, bookish teens had Iris Murdoch. As the poet Philip Larkin…
As we know the tRump misadministration has - for reasons of its own - declared New York City to be…
The US Department of 'Justice' declared this week that New York City -- along with Portland and Seattle -- to…
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say,…
Six stops on the Hammersmith and City from Euston Square to Westbourne Park, up the stairs, along the bridge over…