Life
Party spirit
I feel old, and feelings are not always wrong, This eheu fugaces mood came on me at the Conservative party…
Competition
In Competition No. 3319 you were invited to supply a description of the house of a well-known figure from the…
The problem with empathy
Back in the 1970s, a less politically correct age, there was a standby formula for television advertising known as 2Cs…
I need a helping hand
I first realised something was wrong with my hand last Thursday evening. I’d been invited by a friend to go…
Aussie life
The word humble comes from the Latin humilis, or humus, meaning literally, soil or ground, a priest recently revealed in…
Language
Every so often I like to share with you new words being added to dictionaries. Dictionary.com has just added 566…
Market values
Origin City is a good name for this restaurant, whether it knows it or not. It is at West Smithfield,…
French apple tart
There is, as the saying goes, more than one way to skin a cat. The same could be said –…
Will the US catch the birdie?
At last the Ryder Cup is here – well, in Rome – and with it Europe’s biennial chance to stick…
