Other Men's Flowers

They said that before they give me an ARR next month I must go and see the anaesthetist to find out whether he would be likely to do me any ...

It gave me quite a frisson when I realised that the alleged perpetrator of yesterday's attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines ...

" Here I come, children! Look, no beard this year!"

They had told me that while you are having an MRI scan they can play you music to relieve the tedium; you can choose from their library or b...

More recycled posts from 2005: personal How to fail at your chosen career words Dr Johnson was surly but may have been lovable poetry The wo...

My initiative in making a telephone call sparked off an unusual encounter I had one night last week. A young Japanese woman answered and ask...

No 26 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century August 1909: The writer of this card quotes See the conquering hero come...

As we all know, you have to be careful not to be misled by what you find on the internet. I have just become involved professionally with a ...

More recycled posts from 2005: cinema Some movies get history right, others don't royals Vox pop on the Prince's nuptials hats Dress...

There's still time to get some copies of this for your friends; for anyone who ever goes outdoors and looks upwards it is a nice presen...

I started making comments—friendly, mocking, complimentary, contentious or ribald—on other peoples' blogs soon after I started writing m...

More recycled posts from 2005 words A splendid game für 4 Personen food Kipper and black pudding? Why not? literature Shy man outsells J K R...

No 25 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century August 1908: Albert in Oldham is very free in writing to his aunt in P...

I have been making a survey of unusual names for nether undergarments. My interest in this subject was sparked off by an instruction given t...

When I was born, which was on the same day that the great Cab Calloway recorded "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's first million se...

A while ago I quoted from a report on the ridiculous kind of grub you get at three-star caffs in San Sebastián. I have not been to any of t...

Subtitled An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy , this is an anthology of writings published more tha...

There were two films on TV recently which I vaguely felt I ought to see but which I didn't think would call for my close attention. They...

More recycled posts from 2005: personal Warning on the door sex Sexual orientation: an 11-year old's wise choice religion We have a bett...

Earlier in the month I published a post about Renoir's film La Bête Humaine and my happy discovery on the net of a song from it togeth...