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…
“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…
There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…
P.G.Wodehouse and A.A. Milne were the same age and in 1941 they were both close to 60. As young men…
Few things in this war have been more morally disgusting than the present hunt after traitors and Quislings. At best…
A six-point manifesto from psycholinguist Frank Smith - another of those items found in the basement. I must have prepared…
"Phosphorescence is a process in which energy absorbed by a substance is released relatively slowly in the form of light.…
One book leads to another. Six Degrees of Separation comes via Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Readers…
It's that time of the month - #6degrees again. Read about it here and join in. Play the animation and…