Fringe benefits
The week has passed, cheering Mo Farah to the rafters, but keeping just enough breath in its lungs to propel …
Plums and berries and gout, oh my!
The week has passed goutily. I know. I’m sorry. There’s nothing more tedious than people moaning about their ailments. But …
Lunchtime, and other illusions
‘Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.’ – Douglas Adams. ‘Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.’ …
Cover story
The week has passed, looking neither to the left nor the right, and scurrying through in the hope that it …
Escaping the world
The week has passed, relentlessly flinging tragedy and horror in our faces as if to say ‘Had enough yet? How …
Habla-vous Duolingo?
The week has passed, for us at least, Spanishly. There was a moment, a couple of days into our Granada …
A year ago today…
…it was cloudy. I have the photos to prove it. The plan for the day: up early (the emptiness of …
Billions of blathering buffoons
The week has passed, spending its time gawping open-mouthed at the events across the Atlantic, and pausing only to complain …
Grief and Swifts
The week has passed, garnering mixed reviews. On Friday I went to Salisbury, to meet old friends, reminisce about past …
Trouble at t’feeder
The bird feeders in our garden have turned into a battleground. Our efforts to quell the onslaught of ring-necked parakeets …