Other Men's Flowers

Ten Questions to which we have neither the answer nor the question .  Tony was always of enquiring mind.  It was this imp...

Of this post we have only the title.  It's a typically quixotic and faintly silly title, all that Other Men's Flower...

If you search for these words, Google will count in millions all the websites which contained them in March this year [ Tony drafted this in...

In post about celebrity funerals I published the other day, I noted that many of them are said to have been attended by one hundred thousand...

Fourteen years ago Frank Sinatra's funeral was held in Beverly Hills. Four hundred celebrities were in attendance, including Bill Clint...

This is the blog of Tony.  Had blogging been invented twenty years earlier it is likely this would have had a deleterious effect on his care...

For many years it was believed that Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 21 in C was named after one of his patrons. It is true that Beethoven di...

When staying away from home I used to be an enthusiastic Full English man. Sitting down to make a choice among twenty items, knowing that wh...

"Just what we need, darling, do stop and get a couple!" Easy to see why the poor fellow looks so glum. They often fall off on...

101    The Andean and California are two species of what? 102    What links Louis Armstrong, Oliver Tambo, John Lennon, George Best? 103...

One of the pleasures of getting older is hearing the next generation but two still using quaint out-of-date slang like cool , with it and...

There comes a point in life when one has ceased to acquire major new skills, and but still have some which need to be perfected: getting ...

Earlier this month I had an operation and a few days in hospital. I did not expect an especially jolly week but I was not nervous, because w...

A despatch from a remote spot from which few journalists have been able to file copy is likely to be accurate, particularly when it is writt...

I have written many posts about the mighty Oxford English Dictionary, and this one described a way of getting access to the online version ...

Watching re-runs of lousy old TV dramas is hugely enjoyable: it is fascinating to see which of them can give nostalgic pleasure and which ar...

91     Who was said to have been lovely as Peer Gynt? 92     How do you say "Hamlet, I am thy father's ghost" in Afrikaans? ...

Self Help Homeopathic Remedy Kit for Friends & Family Ainsworths Essential Remedy Kit contains 42 remedies in 30C potency in 2g vials ...

One of my grand-daughters has lived in Spain since she was a toddler. Her name is Meadow, but she can't help that. Now nine years old, s...

I have never been greatly interested in ferrets. Cheery little fellows, I grant you, but lacking the gravitas of your typical weasel or the...