Nigeness

 Year's end, and I'm still coughing and still prostrated by this wretched 'cold' or whatever it is. I thought I might post a...

 I don't like to repeat myself too often, but I see that on this day five years ago I was writing about John Gray's rather wonderful...

 Last night I watched It's A Wonderful Life  again. I see that I last watched it at the start of this year, and wrote about it here, un...

  Well, my festive 'cold' reached something of a peak (or trough) yesterday, and I had to absent myself from the festivities for a c...

 Here, by way of food for Christmas thought, are two Nativity poems by the great R.S. Thomas. First – 'Christmas Eve! Five hundred poets...

Apologies for the hiatus. I was away at the weekend and, since coming back, have been afflicted with a stinking 'cold' – yes, just i...

 As someone who swears rather a lot (never in print, of course), I was pleased to come across this excellent research-based report on ' ...