Other Men's Flowers

[This correspondence began on 25th December …] 31st December Edward, I thought I said no more birds, but this morning I woke up to find no l...

[This correspondence began on 25th December …] 30th December Dear Edward, Whatever I expected to find when I opening the front door this mor...

[This correspondence began on 25th December ...] 29th December Dearest Edward The postman has just delivered five most beautiful gold rings,...

[This correspondence began on 25th December ...] 28th December Dearest Edward What a surprise—four calling birds arrived this morning. They ...

[This correspondence began on 25th December ...] 27th December My darling Edward, You do think of the most original presents; whoever though...

[This correspondence began on 25th December ...] 26th December My dearest darling Edward, The two turtle doves arrived this morning and are ...

[On the First Day of Christmas...] 25th December My dearest darling, That partridge, in a lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting, roman...

Deck the halls with boughs of holly Tralalalala la la la la Let us all be frightfully jolly Tralalalala la la la la Or not, if you’d rather ...

This is the time of year when many of us are planning to prepare and then consume one or more gargantuan meals. Thurber notes that not every...

Fond of doing jigsaws? Try this for a change. It is a similar mindless waste of time, requiring little skill but a great deal of patience an...

A year ago I suggested that the ePetition scheme (petitions online to the Prime Minister) was a fairly pointless exercise, though amusing ...

...or, if you prefer it, the pharmaceutical industry. My first job after leaving the army was with an American firm which had been started...

We now use this casually to mean uttering a warning to desist or face unpleasant consequences but it had a very precise legal significance u...

Last Thursday was the first time I’d attempted this for many years. I hardly ever did it even in my twenties, though three times a week was ...

About once a month, according to my tracker, some confused elderly person will put one of these alternatives into Google, hoping to get the ...

I am not obsessed with Her Majesty the Queen, nor do I have a hat fixation. I am posting yet one more picture of a spectacular hat (also wo...

"Have you no code, man?"

Really Magazine reports that The University of British Columbia, the main centre for A/r/tographic Research, is running a course from Janua...

Writing about my itchy ear the other day reminded me of a very old Jewish joke. It is not easy to write down because it calls for actions, b...

I had this itch in my ear, you see. Not really life-threatening but annoying and perhaps a bit worrying. Had an ear-wig burrowed inside, as ...