More of the same from Jane.
Nonsense
2025 in a nutshell
My fifteenth annual slideshow of the year.
Book review: ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard
A short memoir of random recollections.
Book review: ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
Don’t be put off trying to make a better world… Keep going!
Book review: ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ by Rebecca Solnit
Essays on feminism for everyone.
Collecting the Christmas turkey at M&S…
Shop assistant: “Order for Yvonne! Order for Yvonne… You’re not Yvonne, are you?” Elderly Yorkshireman: “Only at weekends.”
Steve ‘the Colonel’ Cropper (1941–2025)
Book review: ‘The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem’ by Jeremy Noel-Tod
An anthology of poems without line breaks.
Book review: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ by Simon Armitage
An excellent alliterative translation of a medieval masterpiece.
Book review: ‘The Shortest History of Italy’ by Ross King
An excellent short history of an excellent country.