Clock clocked.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
You can take the man out of Liverpool…
Bill is staying with us over New Year. He arrived yesterday, bearing an excellent gift.
Ewe are kidding me!
In which I pull my coiffurist's leg.
Instead of a Book
by Diana Athill Letters to a Friend I love reading books of letters. The veteran author Diana Athill's letters to her friend the American poet Edward Field were never going to hold quite the same fascination for me as the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, or Philip Larkin's non-PC rantings to his mates, but Instead of… Continue reading Instead of a Book
Evacuee kids
A quote from a wartime diary mentioning my dad and uncle.
25 not out
On my 25th consecutive Christmas Eve ascent of Moel Famau.
Slater, get real, man!
Nigel Slater, get real! Who in God's holy name has ‘left-over roast potatoes’?
Just in case
...the world ends tomorrow.
Knobless oblige
Pope uses knob image for Twitter wallpaper.
Code-10 abort
In which my MI6 safe-house is blown.