Nigeness

 On this day 60 years ago, the New York Poet Frank O'Hara died, following a bizarre night-time accident in which he was run over by a je...

Today is the feast day of St Christina the Astonishing, a 12th-century saint from Sint-Truiden, in what is now Belgium. Having suffered a ma...

 I've just noticed that I have now exceeded 5,000 posts on this blog – Butterflies, Proms, Ibsen was number 5,000. I would never have s...

 Just for the record – I recently wrote a piece on Ivy Compton-Burnett for Engelsberg Ideas. Here's a link... https://engelsbergideas.co...

 I spent most of the weekend in Derbyshire with my cousin, revisiting Buxton – the riverside gardens really are very fine – and, yesterday, ...

 Well, my impulse purchase of Damien Wilkins's Max Gate turned out to be a good one. Since I last mentioned it , I have finished readin...

 'Imagine if we won the World Cup,' said my seven-year-old grandson yesterday. 'Ah, my child,' I replied, laying a grandfath...