Other Men's Flowers

Amazingly, or perhaps not, the 419 scam , which started in 1989, is still going strong, and people are still falling for it at the rate of a...

We’ve just had a cold spell, in some places BELOW FREEZING, with some snow; this caused a few small inconveniences, mostly affecting people ...

A few months ago, in a rather confused post which arrived at Offenbach’s song Les Deux Gendarmes by way of musings about South Pacific an...

According to a new book called Shakespeare Goes to Paris by John Pemble, the French rejected Shakespeare for several hundred years because ...

There are several ways of keeping your blog private by making it so unattractive that no stranger who comes across it by chance will linger ...

Whenever the government offers some well-meant and probably sound advice to the public, someone is sure to make a disapproving comment about...

……or so it is announced on a website devoted to the political scene as viewed from this Sussex seaside resort. Whether the world is ready f...

An attractive souvenir of the wedding of the year is selling well. Among all the cooing headlines about the occasion, one stood out by its ...

I cannot swim. When I was growing up in wartime the beaches had barbed wire on them and the swimming pools were either empty or storing wate...

HERE'S some good advice on how to deal with incessant queries from aspiring writers.

Few people really enjoy scrabbling about with their bare hands in heaps of evil-smelling and possibly toxic substances in the thin hope of f...

Schmeling was world heavyweight boxing champion from 1930 to 1932. In 1936, he knocked out Joe Louis, unbeaten in 28 fights, in the 12th rou...

My newspaper this morning presented me with the most wearisome frontpage headline..... New IRA threat to peace process .....and, on an insid...

As we heard the other day, the mood among the board members of the London 2012 Olympic Bid is generally one of defeatism . It is ironic that...

Good is often done for selfish reasons – to massage an ego, to ease a conscience, or in the expectation of reward in the next world. But thi...

Crisis Pictures publish daily images of humanitarian emergencies worldwide that would not otherwise reach a broad audience. They select ima...

Molly Jong-Fast, Erica Jong’s daughter, has revealed horrifying details of Sophie Dahl’s early life with her (Sophie’s) mother, Tessa Dahl. ...

There are many websites offering pretty if slightly boring pictures of auroras and a few with gloating details of the Aurora ’s aborted rou...

…continued from Part 3 I read the other day that North Korean state television is showing a five-part series entitled Let's Trim our Hai...

It is a common enough error to confuse compliment (an expression of praise) with complement (that which completes). The marketing men of m...