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 …
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 …
Clive James – still not dead
About fifteen months ago The New Yorker published a poem by Clive James called ‘Japanese Maple’. It was, and is, …
Ten Books
Everybody’s doing it. Ten Books That Have Stayed With You Since Childhood. Ten Books That You Feel You Should Have …
Welcome to the Afterliff
A thing happened yesterday that made me so chuffed I could have auditioned for the part of Thomas the Tank …