Nigeness

This is rather cheering - play the video. Extraordinary...

The last day of a dismal February and, true to the spirit of the month, it's raining relentlessly, on already sodden ground. I don't...

Today is the centenary of the birth of Peter De Vries. Having marked the anniversary of his death a while back , I could hardly let the dat...

I've only just found out about this - it's an Espresso Book Machine (there's more about it here ), and it might soon be replaci...

Apologies for the scant posting - the toad work is squatting on my life especially heavily these days. However I did manage an evening out l...

Clemence Dane (born Winifred Ashton), a playwright and novelist very successful in her time, was born on this day in 1888. Despite being a ...

Less than a fortnight after the death of Ian Carmichael comes news of the passing of another fine actor and thoroughly decent man of the sam...