Other Men's Flowers

It occurs to me that since it became possible earlier this year to consult a whole range of hugely estimable reference books online, free , ...

It is salutary to be reminded that the consolations and guidance of religion are available not only to us fortunate Anglicans but also to th...

It has recently been revealed that in some rural areas of China it has been common practice to hold a striptease show at funerals in order ...

An angry email came pouring in this morning complaining that I have failed to comply with that clause of the OMF Charter in which there is a...

It is well known that we British have established more organisations which enable like-minded people to get together than any other nation. ...

I don’t think I shall ever want to pay money to get satellite television when there is more good stuff on the terrestrial channels than anyo...

It has been suggested to me that Other Men's Flowers would be more in tune with the contemporary zeitgeist if it contained advertising. ...

MACHO, n, acronym. The initial letters of Massive Compact Halo Object. A relatively dark, dense object, such as a brown dwarf, a low-mass st...

I knew about bouillabaisse , but until last week I had never encountered Pieds et Paquets , which is another Provençal delicacy, consisting ...

I wrote exactly two years ago about the pleasures of listening to music al fresco but did not mention any of the things which might detract...

“Don’t go abroad,” George VI is alleged to have advised, “…abroad’s bloody”. ] In a piece * published in the New York Times Jan Morris notes...

A recent survey of changing food tastes has shown that many classic British dishes are set to disappear from the nation’s larder. No surpri...

I’ve seen this word a couple of times recently and assumed it was a recent American import; it certainly sounds like it, though of course th...

Last January I commiserated with God-King Gyanendra for the pudding basin he was obliged to wear on his head on ceremonial occasions. The h...

Two of Private Eye's regular features—OBN ( Order of the Brown Nose ) and Pseuds Corner —consist of egregious examples of, respectively...

Thurber's cartoons are timeless:

Writing about roast pork a few months ago, I found myself diverted to lamb: Charles Lamb, that is. Then, after reading the essay on roast ...

Making an impression by wearing a ridiculous hat is not as easy as you might think. It’s not just a matter of putting some jokey piece of k...

An early rulebook of a sport in which I was involved professionally for some years had a preamble which contained the following charming sta...

I can't imagine how civilisation first flourished in the Middle East, or China, or anywhere really hot, because there is nothing like br...