Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Record Low?

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 As I come to the end of what was probably the best butterfly season of my life, I discover, courtesy of Butterfly Conservation and their Bi...
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'All are limitory...'

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 On this day in 1973, W.H. Auden died in a hotel room in Vienna, at the age of 66 – not a great age, but with his prodigious intake of alcoh...
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Monday, 28 September 2020

From Hock and Soda to 'the present puddle of the intellectual artistic so-called "world"'

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 With a double hat-tip to Dave Lull and Frank Wilson, I pass on this piece from a blog I hadn't come across before, called Idlings. Alt...
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Saturday, 26 September 2020

'I gave him my promise, and, very heavily indeed, I left him'

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 As mentioned the other day, I am reading The Diary of Fanny Burney – and I'm finding it thoroughly enjoyable. It's hugely readable...
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Friday, 25 September 2020

The Rightful Queen

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 I was walking along the high street this morning, minding my own business, when I was accosted by a woman with henna'd hair, alarming p...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Rooney Day

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Today is a momentous day – the centenary of the birth of that titan of showbiz Mickey Rooney, who, against all expectation, died six years a...
Tuesday, 22 September 2020

At the Barbers' Again

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 The mood down at the barbers' this morning was restive bordering on rebellious, with a deep distrust of 'experts' to the fore. ...