Other Men's Flowers

Privy, jakes, house of easement, water-closet, lavatory, bathroom, toilet, bog..... The list is endless; supposed indelicacy is shunned, eup...

More recycled posts from 2005: people Gadaffi would never have made Patrol Leader literature Prolific writers and a busy lecher foo...

Did you know that if you want to get something for nothing you can do so quite easily? This is how: You choose an internet retailer whom y...

It is not surprising that the only incidence of bad feeling, arrogance and selfishness among the miners and all those involved lin the astou...

Back in 2004 we had a good time singing twenty love songs   , but one can tire of these. Let's have some songs about work;  here are lin...

No 32 in an occasional series of extracts from The Postcard Century January 1928  Not waving but saluting. The two elder sons of Mussolini...

Winter is not yet upon us, so why am I making use of a piece of equipment designed to help Antarctic explorers type up their diaries when it...

When I was at school, during the Second World War, our teachers were men who had been drafted in because they were not in the forces. Some h...

Now that Ian Paisley in his dotage has stopped masquerading as a ranting bigot and taken on the role of cuddly national treasure it is appar...

More recycled posts from 2005: sex A 28,000 years old toy words Supermarket gives away drugs computers WWW, phooey!

...if you are seven years old: Pay an official visit to the local Comisaria de Policias Lead an underwater expedition Try out the local ...

Andy Lewis (Le Canard Noir of The Quackometer) is bearing up very well after the recent demise of the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, and...

This is the title of a wonderful book by Niki Segnit subtitled Pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook.  Published in June last y...

Cheese seems to attract poetasters, for there are hundreds of odes to it. Here is one written by Deric Guest, and published in Wine and Food...

Much of my long life has been devoted to the preparation and execution of deeds of unsolicited benevolence, with occasionally, for a change,...

Warning:  Here are more maudlin reminiscences, continued from  HERE ; two clicks on Page Down will move you on to something that may be mor...

After the Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology, and later the BMA, have clearly and unambiguously recommended that homeopathy ...

I have been closely following a worrying case which is currently being investigated by the state police in Massachusetts. A fifth grade stud...

No, on second thoughts let me not. Samuel Johnson noted a useful word for the one in four men and one in three women in the UK who are overw...

I came very late to drug addiction: in my teens and twenties I was too innocent to notice what was going on. Once at a party a girl passed m...