Notes on…
Candles
Under the sink. That’s where most of us will be keeping a stash of candles in case the lights go…
Signatures
I have a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and her parents on the wall of my bathroom, not out of…
Barcodes
Beep-bop. The sound of the supermarket checkout – a noise Morrisons felt the need to mute after the Queen’s death…
Tabletop games
Warhammer is a tabletop battle game. Players build and paint little models of aliens, tanks and killer robots and then…
Fountain pens
Our new King isn’t the only royal to have lost his rag over a leaky pen, as happened when he…
Royal handbags
In this period of national mourning, it may seem frivolous to comment on the late Queen’s handbag. After seven decades…
Metal detecting
Some detectorists will tell you that the holy grail of metal detecting is a hoard of Roman coins or Anglo-Saxon…
