RattleBag and Rhubarb

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

A Shadorma Chain on the Problem of Cats

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

4 years ago

Bertie Wooster v. Christopher Robin

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

4 years ago

What ho! George Orwell and Cancel Culture

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

4 years ago

The Learners’ Manifesto from Frank Smith

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

4 years ago

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

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

4 years ago