25 Good Things
Great music, played with passion and flair. Really good cheese. A sunny place with flowers and trees and birds and …
Comfort fode
There comes a moment, in every bout of virus-induced sofa-occupation, when you feel yourself getting better. Like Violetta in the …
Contractual obligations and autumn leaves
When I resurrected this blog a couple of years ago I made a sort of contract with myself. Every Sunday …
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Memories, by Toutatis!
Memory is a strange thing, its triggers and manifestations random and unpredictable. The vast complexity of the human brain has …
The Perils of the Cheffy Cookbook
2018 will in future be known as the year of the Great West Norwood Cookbook Cull. But which books to …
Good food, the Sicilian way
2018 will in future be known as the year of the Great West Norwood Cookbook Cull. But which books to …
Simon says – and I obey
2018 will in future be known as the year of the Great West Norwood Cookbook Cull. But which books to …
Swifts and books
It’s been a busy week, especially if you’re a swift. Every week is a busy week for those screamers, of …
Lifelong forgetting
You live and learn. That’s the idea, anyway. But this idea is undermined by a simple thing called human idiocy. …
All booked up
These books. These many books, accumulated over decades. Inherited, bought, borrowed, stolen – some of them even read. Sprawling mountains …