Other Men's Flowers

This has recently been brought up to date. Or rather, sport has been brought up to date: the entry for this word in the OED is one of the ...

For many years I have been using the free version of a photo/video storage program. It serves my purpose well enough and they don't ofte...

Rufus T Firefly to the magnificent Margaret Dumont as Mrs Teasdale: "I could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thought...

This was taken in Andalucia the other day and the one on the horse is my grand-daughter. Although the hat is only a peripheral element here...

For some years now I have been a user, regularly and in some cases daily, of a number of drugs. All of them are legal and not intended to gi...

The first in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century April 1904: HSL tells Arthur Deakin in Gravesend: "I have been...

Think that's just a strawberry, eh? Picked up a bit of French, have you? Like to ask the waiter if the fraises des bois were flown in t...

This is the book I wrote about the other day. With 452 large glossy pages and weighing in at nearly six pounds it would be merely a coffee t...

A hundred years ago, that is what you might have said to a friend when you were going away, and you wouldn't have been referring to any ...

I had not intended to jump on the band wagon by offering a link to any of the several hundred tributes to the Republican vice-presidential c...

...and political correctness; it's a handy abbreviation with several uses and there is one more which will be kept for a later post. We ...

More recycled posts from 2004 politics Kim never appeared but was always there literature Authors have to be careful when naming their chara...

Some years ago a former housekeeper of the Duke of Westminster sued him at an industrial tribunal for unfair dismissal. It came out at the h...

We often wring our hands about today's widespread vandalism and yobbish behaviour, and speak nostalgically of the days when there wasn...

This is an unsatisfactory word, since it applies not to one who has cuckolded somebody else, but to one who was passively cuckolded. I think...

Well, that's what it's been, so those who were actually there have been telling us for the past sixteen days. No doubt about it, thi...

One of the best examples of man's tendency to hold on to an ideal long after experience has rudely shattered it may be seen in our attit...

It was thought worth noting in the Guardian obituary of a distinguished rabbi who died the other day that his older brother had been for man...

Extract from The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913 (You can search these HERE ) 20th May 1681...

I see that last weekend yet another footballing big girl's blouse received a bit of a knock and collapsed writhing in pain until he was ...