Other Men's Flowers

A couple of days ago I posted illustrations of some imaginary creatures, and to follow this up I am devoting this post to a real one. Provin...

In James Thurber's The Beast in Me and Other Animals , published in 1948, there was a collection of drawings which he called A New Natur...

I have never been sure how to pronounce whorl ; dictionaries give several variations but do not make clear which are the acceptable ones and...

Tipi Eisberg , a contributor to Martin G's Really Magazine , normally reviews the more intriguing American patent applications but has r...

A rather feeble joke from Private Eye , but it's a gorgeous picture, isn't it?

There was an item of news earlier this month which must have been of much interest to anyone compiling an anthology called Amazing Stories f...

After all that depressing stuff I wrote about websites, let's have a nice picture of an icon . Nowadays we use the word most often in on...

In 2003 I started designing and publishing websites for individuals, small businesses and charities. They were simple, rather amateurish aff...

Time, I think, for another Sensational Hats post . Most of the headgear featured in this popular series is in one way or another extraordin...

When writing the other day about a Prophylactic Poetry Competition to celebrate the opening of National Contraceptive Awareness Week, I was...

Actually, he is formally known as The Most Reverend Father in God, Rowan Douglas, by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Pri...

I have absolutely no comment to make on this picture

I have noted before that quite often someone hits Other Men's Flowers in search of the lyrics of a song about two gendarmes which they ...

It has been said that the best blogs: have a consistent style; are focussed on a particular theme; are honest and sincere; contain no offens...

Earlier this month the New York Sunday Times Magazine had a cool and cogent article by Steven Pinker called The Moral Instinct which attem...

With bitterness I noted a year ago that some vicious and small-minded creep, may his toes turn green and drop off, had cited "terms of ...

In a more gracious age, for which I was sadly born too late, persons of distinction visiting a restaurant, hotel or place of entertainment w...

Bet you didn't know that of all the peoples of mainland Europe the Belgians are the bravest because they can't import feminine fripp...

I never expect anything in the way of thrills or titillation when I scan through my local newspaper, but this week there wasn't even muc...

Apparently Ella Fitzgerald didn't like him, because he would fool about behind her when they appeared together on stage, and although h...