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Large Dog Eats Anything Loves Children

It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…

4 years ago

Ice

I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…

4 years ago

War Souvenir

My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…

4 years ago

Anna and Gertrude

“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…

4 years ago

The Thinking

This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…

4 years ago

Crime Past, Crime Present, and Crime Future

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

4 years ago

The Hat on the Cat

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

4 years ago

The Seduction of Sir Knack-a-Rib

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

4 years ago

Daffodils Nodding in the Cheese

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

4 years ago

All Our Yesterdays with the #1936Club

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

4 years ago