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…
My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…
“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…
This post is in answer to the question "Operation Pied Piper: What were they thinking?" At least in terms of…
Many people know that the poet T. S. Eliot was very fond of cats and indeed created some wonderful cat…
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OuLiPo meets Anapestic Tetrameter and the mad, bad and dangerous to know Bored Lyeron (If you feel you must read…
Daffodil: good fortune; pleasure; contentment; joy. - from the surrealist dictionary definition generator. Windy today so lots of daffodils nodding…
There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…