Yeats wrote the poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" (see Game of Swans) in 1916 /17 when he was staying…
Decomposition I have a picture I took in Bombay of a beggar asleep on the pavement: grey-haired, wearing shorts and…
A group of swans is a wedge when they're in flight, likely because of the shape a group of swans takes in…
Scooterons-nous vite. It's Back to School with Angela Brazil Long before Harry Potter - and indeed long before all those…
It's always fun when someone you know - a friend - has a book published. Here's Three Sheets to the…
I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…
Mustn't Grumble We mustn’t grumble We have wireless and cable And there’s food in the shops. Beyoncé had a birthday and…
George Orwell had an interesting chance encounter with a blasé conspiracy theorist at the Café Royal in 1940. (See left). The young…
Just over 20 years ago now a teacher walked into my office and said that he had just found a…
Friends in the UK who usually come to visit in August were prevented by an illness this year. Big disappointment,…
There's a drainage ditch runs alongside the rail trail where we often take our morning stroll. It runs with water…
The Background One evening in the spring of 1919 a soldier in his uniform appeared at the front door of…
When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…
When I first became a head of school I had this daft idea that I would make personalized cut-and-paste greetings…