Nigeness

Hallowe'en seems to have cast its dark shadow before it this year: the last three charity-shop books I've bought were Susan Hill...

Life goes on, I see, in all its radiant absurdity - and what could be more radiantly absurd than an obscure Lib-Dem MP getting her name in t...

Apologies for the blog hiatus; normal service will, I am sure, be resumed very soon. My hitherto indestructible mother finally succumbed, in...

Once again, it seems, the world scampers along in the trend-setting footsteps of this blog - not to mention those of HM the Queen. A charact...

Born on this day in 1830 was the brilliant flower painter and tireless traveller Marianne North, who, even by the standards of intrepid, g...

My deathday post for (Pearl) Zane Grey is on the Dabbler today...

In yesterday's Dabbler , Brit was recalling the grim experience of walking through the first 20th Century British gallery in the Tate. I...