Author: Richard Carter

Today would have been J.R.R. Tolkien's eleventy-first birthday. By way of a tribute, I should like to quote the first paragraph of Tolkien's I ever read (over Irish Mick's shoulder on the train on my way home from school many, many years ago): “I need no map,” said Gimli, who had come up with Legolas,… Continue reading A Rather Curious Number

OK, I admit it, even I wasn't expecting success on the A Farthing for Your Thoughts front quite this quickly… BBC: Sutch Ends Norwich Tenure [02-Jan-03] Norwich City defender Daryl Sutch has left Carrow Road after 16 years and is now poised to join Southend. That's Daryl Sutch of Norwich City Football Club, also known… Continue reading Prediction Comes True: "Nor Canary Flight"

At this time of year, it's traditional to make predictions for the forthcoming 12 months. Then, in a year's time, it's traditional to try to convince everyone that you were uncannily accurate in your predictions. list of anagrams of my friend Carolyn (whose surname is Farthing)'s name. So I chose 10 anagrams from the list… Continue reading Predictions, 2003 (or A Farthing for Your Thoughts)

Jen and I won £10 on the lottery last week. I've only just remembered to collect our winnings. It turns out we'd actually won £89. About bloody time!

Carolyn doesn't remember H E Todd coming to our school (but, as she so perceptively pointed out, I tend to remember that sort of thing, and she doesn't). She does, however, remember reading Bobby Brewster stories. She managed to get hold of the mice she was after, but they can squeeze their way through the… Continue reading Two updates

I'm at my parents' house for the evening. I just got off the phone to Jen. She had sardine sandwiches for tea. I pointed out that sardine sandwiches were a particular favourite of mine and Bobby Brewster's when I was a kid. “Bobby who?” asked Jen. Bobby Brewster: the brain-child of the children's author, H… Continue reading Bobby Brewster

HLP! IVE GOT MU FCKING HEAD STUUCK INTH E FUXKNG SCANNER! ID NT FKNG BE,IENE IIT!

About mice.